> > Yes that's the tradeoff. I just feel that the former may be better, > especially because the latter can be timing dependant (so you may get > things randomly "happening"), and the former is apparently very low > overhead compared with the cost of taking the lock. Any numbers, > anyone?
as I said, since the cacheline just got dirtied, the write is just half a cycle which is so much in the noise that it really doesn't matter. - 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/
