Hi,
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nope. On uniprocessor systems, atomic_foo() doesn't actually do the
> buslocked atomic thing.
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> #define LOCK "lock ; "
> #else
> #define LOCK ""
> #endif
>
> On x86, at least. Other architectures can do the same thing if they have
> an atomic-wrt-IRQs add and sub.
That's true on x86, but if these functions have to be emulated using
spinlocks, they always have to disable interrupts, whether the caller
needs it or not. Also x86 has the lock attribute, which helps a lot, but
on other archs a cmpxchg instruction can be quite expensive, so it could
be cheaper by just using {disable,enable}_preempt.
bye, Roman
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