* Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] trylock is more significantly slower, but they are relatively
> rare.
trylock is the main thing that the spinlock debugging code uses, and
SPINLOCK_DEBUG is frequently enabled by distro kernels. OTOH, the cost
looks like to be +5 instructions, right? Still ...
Ingo
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