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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch] i386 spinlocks: disable interrupts only if we enabled them
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:52:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060308025227.GP5410@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060308004308.GA16069@elte.hu>

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:43:08AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> we dont inline that code anymore. So i think the optimization is fine.

Why is that?  It adds memory traffic that has to be synchronized 
before the lock occurs and clobbered registers now in the caller.

		-ben
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-08  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-07 23:34 [patch] i386 spinlocks: disable interrupts only if we enabled them Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-08  0:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08  0:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-08  2:52     ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2006-03-08  6:55       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08  8:52         ` Nick Piggin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-08  1:45 Chuck Ebbert

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