Re: [patch] i386 spinlocks: disable interrupts only if we enabled them

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:43:08AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> we dont inline that code anymore. So i think the optimization is fine.

Why is that?  It adds memory traffic that has to be synchronized 
before the lock occurs and clobbered registers now in the caller.

		-ben
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