* Christoph Lameter ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> > Using cmpxchg_local vs cmpxchg has a clear impact on the fast paths, as
> > shown below: it saves about 60 to 70 cycles for kmalloc and 200 cycles
> > for the kmalloc/kfree pair (test 2).
>
> Hmmmm.. I wonder if the AMD processors simply do the same in either
> version.
No supposed to. I remember having posted numbers that show a
difference.
Are you running a UP or SMP kernel ? If you run a UP kernel, the
cmpxchg_local and cmpxchg are identical.
Oh, and if you run your tests at boot time, the alternatives code may
have removed the lock prefix, therefore making cmpxchg and cmpxchg_local
exactly the same.
Mathieu
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