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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:57:20 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, zdenek.kabelac@...il.com,
rjw@...k.pl, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
penberg@...helsinki.fi, clameter@....com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, pageexec@...email.hu,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> text_poke() itself only applies/unapplies the LOCK prefix - a single
> byte. We shouldnt be doing that at all: the cost of LOCK is
> insignificant (a few cycles) and most systems are SMP anyway.
>
Alas, on older CPUs the cost of LOCK can be massive. The question is
how much we really care - the embedded people (who would definitely be
affected) will simply build UP kernels, and this only affects booting
SMP kernels on UP.
-hpa
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