* Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Btw, your get/put_task proposal adds two atomic ops. Atomic ops are
> implicit memory barriers and therefor you add two extra slow downs
> into the non conflict case.
i'm not that worried about this - the atomic ops are for already cached
cachelines, any sane CPU ought to execute them close to full speed.
(x86-ish cpus certainly do)
Ingo
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