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From: Harald Koerfgen <hkoerfg@web.de>
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To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Subject: Re: ll/sc emulation patch
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 19:19:37 +0200
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On Saturday 14 July 2001 12:53, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> I'm just making an attempt to re-implement the ll/sc emulation as light
> as possible.  I hope to get the overhead down to the point were we don't
> need _test_and_set anymore - in any case below the overhead of a syscall.

I'd love to see something like that. What 's your idea?


Greetings,
Harald
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