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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/10] [PATCH RFC V2] Paravirtualized ticketlocks
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:09:20 -0700
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On 10/06/2011 10:40 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> However, it looks like locked xadd is also has better performance:  on
> my Sandybridge laptop (2 cores, 4 threads), the add+mfence is 20% slower
> than locked xadd, so that pretty much settles it unless you think
> there'd be a dramatic difference on an AMD system.

Konrad measures add+mfence is about 65% slower on AMD Phenom as well.

    J