Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:32:46 +1000 | Subject | Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] | From | Herbert Xu <> |
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:33:58AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:59 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote: > > > > > > atomic_dec_and_test() is more expensive than 2 barriers + atomic_dec(), > > > but in case of connector I think the price is not so high. > > > > Can you list the platforms on which this is true? > > sparc64, some mips [at least in UP].
Are you sure? The implementations of atomic_sub and atomic_sub_return (which correspond to atomic_dec and atomic_dec_and_test) seem to be comparable in cost on those two architectures.
Perhaps Dave can clarify for us about sparc64?
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