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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint()
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:26:12 -0800
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:14:12PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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> prefetchw() would be too much overhead?

No idea.  Where do you believe that prefetchw() should be added?

							Thanx, Paul