On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 06:32:55PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > In that context it would also be helpful to measure the overhead on > x86 for the !empty case.
Yes, because mfence is by no means a cheap instruction on x86. -- 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/