On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, David Miller wrote: > From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:49:52 -0700 > > > A cmpxchg is less costly than interrupt enabe/disable > > This is cpu dependant, and in fact not true at all on Niagara > and several of the cpus in the UltraSPARC family.
Hmmm... So have alternate aloc/free paths depending on the cpu? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
