Re: [cpuops cmpxchg V2 5/5] cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoidlock semantics

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/14/2010 08:55 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> We do not need to reload the value as pointed out by Eric. It is already in
> the correct register so just rerun the cmpxchg without the load.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> 

Is it genuinely faster to do the pre-load mov, or can we drop that too?
 My guess would be that yes it is, but if it happens not to be it would
be nice to reduce the code size.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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