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SubjectRe: Semaphore assembly-code bug
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Anyway, it's quite likely that for several CPU's the fastest sequence ends
> up actually being
>
> movl 4(%esp),%ecx
> movl 8(%esp),%edx
> movl 12(%esp),%eax
> addl $16,%esp
>
> which is also one of the biggest alternatives.

For K8 it should be the fastest way. K7 probably too.

-Andi
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