Subject: Re: SMP API things, lock debugging, etc.
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-smp
Date: 07/27/1999 08:41:53
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:53:48 -0400 
 Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> wrote:

 > On one architecture I'm aware of, it's more convenient for "0" to mean
 > locked and "1" to mean unlocked (PA-RISC, which does have MP systems;
 > also, some people have expressed interest in a port to the PA in the
 > past).

Very good point.  I will amend this a bit.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>