[PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Use lwarx hint in spinlocks

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Tue Feb 16 15:16:03 EST 2010


On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:57:28PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> v2: We do this only for 64bit until we can verify all 32bit CPUs.
> 
> Tested so far: 970 (thanks Ben), POWER5, POWER6, POWER7
> Still to test: RS64, POWER3, POWER4

Tested on PA6T as well, no performance impact (as expected).


-Olof



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