Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:39:22 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: (*(unsigned long *)&jiffies)++; |
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Petko Manolov wrote:
>Lock don't hurt anyway.
Locks definitely _hurt_ performance very badly. Locks don't scale in SMP so if you lock the bus all the time only once CPU between the NR_CPUS will run and the other will stall at the first memory bus access. Locks also prevents the locking-CPU to reorder instructions on IA32. locks hurt also in UP for this reason.
>May be i am not right, but i think there was some simple instructions >(not only incl) that force lock before them in both cases.
You are talking about xchg (and it's 64bit variant) but they are unrelated.
Andrea
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