From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] gianfar: convert u64 status counters to atomic64_t Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:14:25 -0800 Message-ID: <1360772065.6884.23.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1360715064-2689-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1360715064-2689-3-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <511BAFC4.9060006@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Paul Gortmaker , David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Claudiu Manoil Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f44.google.com ([209.85.220.44]:34889 "EHLO mail-pa0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934312Ab3BMQO3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:14:29 -0500 Received: by mail-pa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id kp1so789374pab.31 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:14:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <511BAFC4.9060006@freescale.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 17:22 +0200, Claudiu Manoil wrote: > At least it seems that this conversion results in fewer asm > instructions, as apparently addze and the double lwz/stw are > not generated anymore. Hopefully it's faster too :P Strange, could you show us these asm instructions ?