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Message-ID: <4728FD4C.2010509@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:10:20 -0400
From: Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Kleen, Andi" <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?
> pushl %ebp
> movl %esp, %ebp
> cmpl $0, 8(%ebp)
> movl $1, %eax
> cmove v, %eax ; load (maybe)
> movl %eax, v ; store (always)
> popl %ebp
> ret
How is this even an optimization? It looks SLOWER to me. The
conditional read wastes memory bandwidth sometimes, if the condition is
true, and v isn't already in the cache. The unconditional write wastes
memory bandwidth ALL the time, and dirties/flushes caches, in addition
to not being thread safe.
This SHOULD be using a conditional write instead of a conditional read
and an unconditional write.
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