Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()

Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-26T20:24:42Z

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.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs