Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:38:09 -0400 (EDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.6] Allow x86_64 to reenable interrupts on contention |
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > the reduced interrupt latency, the code size issue can also be taken care > > of, but that requires benchmarking as the change is a bit more drastic. > > Do you have numbers on that? Frankly if someone is spinning on irq disabled > locks for a long time they should just fix their code.
It wasn't i who saw the contention but something Keith ran into, the contention probably wasn't bad enough to require serious locking changes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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