* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] trylock is more significantly slower, but they are relatively > rare.
trylock is the main thing that the spinlock debugging code uses, and SPINLOCK_DEBUG is frequently enabled by distro kernels. OTOH, the cost looks like to be +5 instructions, right? Still ... Ingo - 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/