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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:24:50 +0200
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:20:21PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> > generic Athlon is
> > 
> > nothing: 11 cycles
> > locked add: 11 cycles
> > cpuid: 64 cycles
> 
> Interestingly enough, my TBird 1.1G insist on cpuid being somewhat
> slower:
> 
> nothing: 11 cycles
> locked add: 11 cycles
> cpuid: 87 cycles

Oops, this is indeed just a difference in compiler options.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs