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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint()
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:07:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101115140739.GJ7269@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011150756130.19175@router.home>

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:57:10AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:14:12PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > >
> > > prefetchw() would be too much overhead?
> >
> > No idea.  Where do you believe that prefetchw() should be added?
> 
> It is another way to get an exclusive cache line
> for situations like this. No need to give a hint.

prefetchw doesn't work on Intel (or rather is equivalent to prefetch), 
for Intel you always need to explicitely write to get an exclusive
line.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-15 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-05 16:53 [PATCH] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 17:20 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-05 18:00   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 18:08     ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-05 18:20       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 18:28         ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-05 19:20           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 19:39             ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-05 19:46               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 19:51             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-11-12 19:14               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-11-13 22:26                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-11-15 13:57                   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-11-15 14:07                     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-11-15 14:16                       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-11-15 14:17                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-15 14:25                       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-11-15 14:39                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-15 14:47                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 18:40     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-11-05 19:12       ` Eric Dumazet

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