n Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > Although we have a per-cpu area base in a fixed global register
> > for addressing, the above isn't beneficial on sparc64 because
> > the atomic is much slower than doing a:
> >
> > local_irq_disable();
> > nonatomic_percpu_memory_op();
> > local_irq_enable();
>
> Again might be pointing out the obvious, but you
> need of course save_flags()/restore_flags(), not disable/enable().
>
> If it was just disable/enable x86 could do it much faster too
> and Christoph probably would never felt the need to approach
> this project for his SLUB fast path.
I already have no need for that anymore with the material now in Andrews
tree. However, this cuts out another 6 cycles from the fastpath and I
found that the same principles reduce overhead all over the kernel.
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