On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Yes, I use it as synchronization mechanism for my buffer management algorithm > in LTTng. Since I write in per-cpu buffers and want to be as reentrant > as possible wrt other contexts (dealing with NMI as worse case, but also > applies to MCE..), I use local_cmpxchg to reserve space in my buffers. > It is faster than the standard cmpxchg.
Ok I have seen these numbers in the OLS papers but I could not reproduce them in SLUB. - 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/
