From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753429Ab3FJVCG (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:02:06 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:58453 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752819Ab3FJVCE (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:02:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:01:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Steven Rostedt cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, peterz@infradead.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC ticketlock] Auto-queued ticketlock In-Reply-To: <1370897278.9844.115.camel@gandalf.local.home> Message-ID: References: <20130609193657.GA13392@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1370897278.9844.115.camel@gandalf.local.home> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Thanks, tglx