spinlocks

[Anton Blanchard]

Hi,

> Is a single binary for Apple & pSeries a goal?  While it has some
> obvious advantages, there is likely to be a number of areas (the
> spinlock discussion being one) where the goals are quite different.

I think the goals of G5 and POWER4 SMP and LPAR are quite similar as far
as spinlocks go, they should both benefit from an improvement in icache
usage.

Anton

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