Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:43:35 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/18] x86/ticketlock: make __ticket_spin_trylock common |
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 02:38:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > > > Can't we just get rid of the small ticket size code path? > > > > I couldn't benchmark any difference between the two last time > > I tried. > > The small locks aren't any faster. They are just smaller.
Are you sure?
AFAIK it's always
typedef struct arch_spinlock { unsigned int slock; } arch_spinlock_t;
-Andi
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