Re: [PATCH -tip] x86/locking/atomic: Use asm_inline for atomic locking insns

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Mar 05 2025 - 15:21:56 EST



* Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I simply run the lmbench command, where the benchmark was obtained as
> .rpm for Fedora 41 [1], assuming that the benchmark itself sets the
> benchmarked system to the correct state and does enough repetitions
> to obtain a meaningful result [2].

These assumptions are not valid in a lot of cases - see my other email
with an example.

Thanks,

Ingo