On 08/12/2013 10:35 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Agreed. Making it atomic would suck, and cancel all advantages of the
> better code generation to access it. Good point.
>
> And yeah, it could be two variables in the same cacheline or something.
>
So we would have code looking something like:
decl %fs:preempt_count
jnz 1f
cmpb $0,%fs:need_resched
je 1f
call __preempt_schedule
1:
It's a nontrivial amount of code, but would seem a fair bit better than
what we have now, at least.
-hpa
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