Messages in this thread | | | Date | 19 Sep 2004 14:11:55 +0200 | Date | Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:11:55 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: page fault scalability patch V8: [4/7] universally available cmpxchg on i386 |
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:30:37PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > Far too large for inline
It's much smaller than it looks - the switch will be optimized away by the compiler. For the X86_CMPXCHG case it is even a single instruction. For the other case it should be < 10 instructions, which is still reasonable.
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