Re: "movb" for spin-unlock

From: Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.clara.co.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 17:53:35 EST

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> A small piece of code that occurs extremely often in the kernel just
> got more than 20 times faster. Apparently it shows up in application
> benchmarks.

Can we expect an backport to the 2.2.x kernels?

Cheers,
Alex

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