Re: [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 22 2005 - 10:40:44 EST



* Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> [...] on ARMv6 at least this can be improved even further, but a
> special implementation which is neither a fully qualified atomic
> decrement nor an atomic swap is needed. [...]

i'm curious, how would this ARMv6 solution look like, and what would be
the advantages over the atomic swap based variant?

Ingo
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