Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:15:20 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC ticketlock] Auto-queued ticketlock |
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:01:50PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 12:36 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__ > > > > Is there such a thing as a BIG_ENDIAN x86 box? This is in > > arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock_types.h > > That's just an habit for people who have been forced to deal with BE > CPUs. > > The sad thing is that BE CPUs have been designed by folks who blindly > expanded BCD computing without understanding the hardware > implications. > > Unfortunately they managed to inflict BE to the network protocols > which in turn manifested the only excuse of keeping the BE nonsense > alive.
Hey, we had to do -something-, after all, EBCDIC lost out to ASCII!!! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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