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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Use lwarx hint in spinlocks
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Hi Nick,

> Cool. How does it go when there are significant amount of instructions
> between the lock and the unlock? A real(ish) workload, like dbench on
> ramdisk (which should hit the dcache lock).

Good question, I'll see if we can see a difference on dbench.

Anton