Re: [RFC PATCH 03/15] Provide atomic_t functions implemented with ISO-C++11 atomics

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu May 19 2016 - 03:45:51 EST


On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:36:49AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 19:32 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > Does this generate 'sane' code for LL/SC archs? That is, a single LL/SC
> > loop and not a loop around an LL/SC cmpxchg.
>
> The whole point of using compiler intrinsics and letting the compiler
> actually see what's going on... is that it bloody well should :)

Should and does be two different things of course ;-)