From: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ltt-dev@shafik.org
Subject: MIPS atomic operations, "sync"
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:40:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061110184049.GA24977@Krystal> (raw)
Hi,
I am currently creating a "LOCK" prefix free and memory barrier free version
of atomic.h to fulfill my tracer (LTTng) needs, which is to atomically update
per-cpu data and have a minimal performance loss.
I just came across the MIPS atomic.h and system.h implementations in 2.6.18
which brings a question :
Why are the primitives in include/asm-mips/atomic.h using the "sync"
instruction even in the UP case ? system.h cmpxchg only uses the sync in the
SMP case.
Mathieu
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next reply other threads:[~2006-11-10 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-10 18:40 Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2006-11-10 22:33 ` MIPS atomic operations, "sync" Ralf Baechle
2006-11-11 5:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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