Re: [patch 00/10] [RFC] SLUB patches for more functionality,performance and maintenance

[Christoph Lameter]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, David Miller wrote:

> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:49:52 -0700
> 
> > A cmpxchg is less costly than interrupt enabe/disable
> 
> This is cpu dependant, and in fact not true at all on Niagara
> and several of the cpus in the UltraSPARC family.

Hmmm... So have alternate aloc/free paths depending on the cpu?

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