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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/5] atomic: introduce atomic_inc_not_zero
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Roman Zippel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Also needs work on those same architectures. Other architectures
>>> might want to look at providing a more optimal implementation.
>>
>>
>>
>> IMO a rather pointless primitive, unless there is a cpu architecture
>> which has a inc_not_zero instruction, otherwise it will always be the
>> same as using cmpxchg.
>>
>

[snip]

But even supposing the cmpxchg variant was the highest
performing implementation available on any architecture, I
would still consider exporting the inc_not_zero instruction.

The reason is that cmpxchg is not nearly so readable as
inc_not_zero when used inline in the code.

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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