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SubjectRe: new IRQ scalability changes in 2.3.48
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>of course there is some overhead here, but it's not at all as slow as you
>imagine. It's these two additional (nonlocked) instructions on x86:
>
> decl %0
> jz 1f
>.section offline.preempt
> call do_reschedule

So you if you do:

sys_xxx {
spin_lock()
spin_unlock()
}

then the spin_unlock for sure jumps always far away out of line and you'll
see that change in the bench numbers.

Andrea


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