Re: [PATCH] SLUB use cmpxchg_local

[Christoph Lameter]

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.
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