NUMA AWARE LOCKS

NOTE: The current patch supercedes the first. They have been tested with the 2.4.6 kernel, but are implemented in a way to be fairly version independent. The patch is currently for both ia32 and ia64 architectures.
  1. This is the first version of Numa Aware Locks released 7/16/01
  2. This is the current version of Numa Aware Locks released 8/01/01. The new release removes the unspin/respin routines from do_IRQ(), and also incorporates suggestions from the community.