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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707090845230.13792@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 08:45:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...r.kernel.org,
suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, corey.d.gough@...el.com,
penberg@...helsinki.fi, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] [RFC] SLUB patches for more functionality,
performance and maintenance
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:49:52 -0700
>
> > A cmpxchg is less costly than interrupt enabe/disable
>
> This is cpu dependant, and in fact not true at all on Niagara
> and several of the cpus in the UltraSPARC family.
Hmmm... So have alternate aloc/free paths depending on the cpu?
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