* Simple spin lock operations. There are two variants, one clears IRQ's
* on the local processor, one does not.
*
- * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which are currently limited to 256
- * CPUs.
+ * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which support up to 2^16 CPUs.
*
* (the type definitions are in asm/spinlock_types.h)
*/