linux-kernel - Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?

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Date:	Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:00:17 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	"Dong Feng" <middle.fengdong@...il.com>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?

Andi Kleen writes:

> > That's fair enough, but I would be opposed to 
> > making semaphores bigger 
> 
> If the code was out of lined bigger wouldn't make much difference

I was referring to the data size not the code size.

> That would leave the fast path, but does it help that much there
> to have a more complicated implementation?

The implementation of the fast path is basically atomic_inc/dec.
Nothing more complicated.

Paul.
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