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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/14/2010 09:19 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Dropping the load increases the cycle count from 11 to 16.
> 

Great, that answers that!  I'll pick up the patch hopefully today (I'm
finally ramping back up on arch/x86 again after having been diverted to
an internal project for a while...)

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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