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From: olof@lixom•net (Olof Johansson)
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Don't use long for 32-bit temp variables in spin lock ops
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:14:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070613141452.GA9822@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18031.29567.757635.864638@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:33:03PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> > Note the cmpdi at ..78 when r9 was loaded with lwarx.
> 
> That's OK; the lwarx is defined to zero-extend the value to 64 bits.
> 
> Or are you implying that cmpdi is slower than cmpwi on some 64-bit
> processors? :)

Nope, it was just seemed inconsistent to me, especially since the
preceding (asm) comparison was 32-bit.


-Olof

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-13 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-07 17:08 [PATCH] powerpc: Don't use long for 32-bit temp variables in spin lock ops Olof Johansson
2007-06-13  4:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-06-13 14:14   ` Olof Johansson [this message]

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