Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug

[Andi Kleen]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Anyway, it's quite likely that for several CPU's the fastest sequence ends 
> up actually being 
> 
> 	movl 4(%esp),%ecx
> 	movl 8(%esp),%edx
> 	movl 12(%esp),%eax
> 	addl $16,%esp
> 
> which is also one of the biggest alternatives.

For K8 it should be the fastest way. K7 probably too.

-Andi
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