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DateMon, 20 Aug 2007 13:32:05 -0700 (PDT)
FromChristoph Lameter <>
SubjectRe: [patch 01/23] Fall back on interrupt disable in cmpxchg8b on 80386 and 80486
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> already present in cmpxchg_386_u32 tells much about how this cmpxchg
> implementation should not be used in a SMP context. However, the cmpxchg_local
> can perfectly use this fallback, since it only needs to be atomic wrt the local
> cpu.

Do you have an example where the use of cmpxchg_local is a performance
benefit when actually used in code? cmpxchg is already problematic
functionality since it is not available on all platforms.
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