Re: [PATCH 0/5] ppc RT: Realtime preempt support for PPC

* Frank Rowand <[email protected]> wrote:

> < more stuff deleted >
> 
> I'm working on the architecture support for realtime on PPC64 now. If 
> the lock field of struct raw_rwlock_t is a long instead of int then 
> /proc/meminfo shows MemFree decreasing from 485608 kB to 485352 kB.
> 
> Do you have a preference for lock to be long instead of int?
> 
> Do you know if any of the other 64 bit architectures would have an 
> issue with int?

that would be nice to know. I have no preference, other than if possible 
it should be unified, no #ifdefs or other conditionals.

	Ingo
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