From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardi...@citrix.com> The note about partial registers is not really relevent now that we rely on gcc to generate all the assembler.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardi...@citrix.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h | 4 ---- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h index f5695ee..972c260 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h @@ -49,10 +49,6 @@ * issues and should be optimal for the uncontended case. Note the tail must be * in the high part, because a wide xadd increment of the low part would carry * up and contaminate the high part. - * - * With fewer than 2^8 possible CPUs, we can use x86's partial registers to - * save some instructions and make the code more elegant. There really isn't - * much between them in performance though, especially as locks are out of line. */ static __always_inline void __ticket_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock) { -- 1.7.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html