Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation
From: Nick Piggin
Date: Fri Dec 16 2005 - 10:34:39 EST
Linh Dang wrote:
Do you now see what I mean? (yup, ARM is a llsc architecture.)
Well, it may be true for ARM but for ppc (i dunno what exactly llsc
means but someone in the thread put ppc in llsc group) it's:
load locked or load with lock, IIRC.
loop:
load-reserve foo => old
new = old * N
store-conditional new => foo
if failed goto loop
The point is that the typical use case for a cmpxchg is less optimal
if cmpxchg is simulated with llsc than if the same functionality were
directly implemented with llsc instructions.
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