On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 13:50 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Argh!! at what cost? 64bit atomics are like expensive. Wouldn't > adding > > a seqlock be saner? > > Not sure. This requires a spinlock in the write side which is called > from > fast path like the timer interrupt.
A single spinlock is _way_ cheaper than a ton of cmpxchg8b()s to update a few variables. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
