On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 01:28:20AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > We might use atomic_long_t only (and no spinlocks) > Something like this ? Erk, complex and slow... Try using local_t instead, which is substantially cheaper on the P4 as it doesn't use the lock prefix and act as a memory barrier. See asm/local.h. -ben - 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/
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