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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/18] x86/ticketlock: make __ticket_spin_trylock common
On 08/24/2011 02:43 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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;

Hm, I changed that in this series; arch_spinlock can be 16 bits in the
<256 case. I wonder if it matters...

J


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