Commit 4a7f340c authored by Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar Jeremy Fitzhardinge

x86, ticketlock: remove obsolete comment

The note about partial registers is not really relevent now that we
rely on gcc to generate all the assembler.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
parent 61e2cd0a
...@@ -49,10 +49,6 @@ ...@@ -49,10 +49,6 @@
* issues and should be optimal for the uncontended case. Note the tail must be * issues and should be optimal for the uncontended case. Note the tail must be
* in the high part, because a wide xadd increment of the low part would carry * in the high part, because a wide xadd increment of the low part would carry
* up and contaminate the high part. * up and contaminate the high part.
*
* With fewer than 2^8 possible CPUs, we can use x86's partial registers to
* save some instructions and make the code more elegant. There really isn't
* much between them in performance though, especially as locks are out of line.
*/ */
static __always_inline void __ticket_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock) static __always_inline void __ticket_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
{ {
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