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ticket spinlocks for x86

From:  Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To:  Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject:  [patch 0/4] ticket spinlocks for x86
Date:  Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:01:46 +0100
Message-ID:  <20071101140146.GA26879@wotan.suse.de>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Hi,

I'd like to propose these patches for the x86 tree for a bit more exposure
and testing. Or at least get some discussion going again.

Just for fun I also had a shot at merging the headers, as they become a
lot more similar after this with the removal of the paravirt crud.


Nick

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