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SubjectRe: Locking comment on shrink_caches()

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > VIA Cyrix CIII (original generation 0.18u)
> >
> > nothing: 28 cycles
> > locked add: 29 cycles
> > cpuid: 72 cycles
>
> Interesting. From a newer C3..
>
> nothing: 30 cycles
> locked add: 31 cycles
> cpuid: 79 cycles
>
> Only slightly worse, but I'd not expected this.

That difference can easily be explained by the compiler and options.

You should use "gcc -O2" at least, in order to avoid having gcc do
unnecessary spills to memory in between the timings. And there may be some
versions of gcc that en dup spilling even then.

Linus

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