Re: [PATCH] New operation for kref to help avoid locks

[Arjan van de Ven]

> Just doing an atomic operation is not faster than doing a lock, an 
> atomic operation, then an unlock?  Am I missing something?

if the lock and the atomic are on the same cacheline they're the same
cost on most modern cpus...



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