On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Are you running a UP or SMP kernel ? If you run a UP kernel, the > cmpxchg_local and cmpxchg are identical.
UP. > Oh, and if you run your tests at boot time, the alternatives code may > have removed the lock prefix, therefore making cmpxchg and cmpxchg_local > exactly the same. Tests were run at boot time. That still does not explain kmalloc not showing improvements. - 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/