Re: [PATCH] x86: Use asm-goto to implement mutex fast path on x86-64

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:45:41AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Right... brain not awake yet, sorry, and responding from my phone.
> 
> I am not to worried about trading off a bit of additional branch mispredicts if everything else wins, but Ingo does have a valid question if we are measuring the right thing.
> 
> The effect is definitely big enough that it would be good to understand it one way or the other.
> 
> And regardless of the source... nice job!

Yeah, see my other reply. Ingo's way of tracing this doesn't show any
speedup. So I need to find out now why do I see the speedup the way I
run it.

Keep you posted.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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