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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:50:58 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] task_work: avoid unneeded cmpxchg() in
task_work_run()
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 19:50 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> But you did not answer, and I am curious. What was your original
> motivation? Is xchg really faster than cmpxchg?
And is this true over multiple architectures? Or are we optimizing for
x86_64 (again) ?
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