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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] task_work: avoid unneeded cmpxchg() in task_work_run()
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:50:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349891458.1279.23.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121010175032.GA22642@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 19:50 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> But you did not answer, and I am curious. What was your original
> motivation? Is xchg really faster than cmpxchg? 

And is this true over multiple architectures? Or are we optimizing for
x86_64 (again) ?

      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-08  9:18 [PATCH] task_work: avoid unneeded cmpxchg() in task_work_run() Lai Jiangshan
2012-10-08 12:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-09 11:04   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-10  5:37     ` [PATCH V2] " Lai Jiangshan
2012-10-10 17:50       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-10 17:50         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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