From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Kaigai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>,
hugh@veritas.com, wli@holomorphy.com,
takata.hirokazu@renesas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atomic_inc_return() for i386[1/5] (Re: atomic_inc_return)
Date: 12 Sep 2004 10:25:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:25:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040912082538.GA87823@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040911160532.07216174.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 04:05:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com (Kaigai Kohei) wrote:
> >
> >
> > [1/5] atomic_inc_return-linux-2.6.9-rc1.i386.patch
> > This patch implements atomic_inc_return() and so on for i386,
> > and includes runtime check whether CPU is legacy 386.
> > It is same as I posted to LKML and Andi Kleen at '04/09/01.
> >
>
> Can we not use the `alternative instruction' stuff to eliminate the runtime
> test?
Yes, we could. I suggested this to Kaigai-san earlier, but
he decided that it was too complicated because he would have needed
to add an additional alternative() macro with enough parameters.
Given that atomic instructions are quite costly anyways and the jump
should be very predictable he's probably right that it wouldn't
be worth the effort.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-12 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409092005430.14004-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2004-09-10 3:26 ` Kaigai Kohei
2004-09-10 5:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-11 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-12 8:25 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-12 9:06 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-10 3:27 ` [PATCH] atomic_inc_return() for x86_64[2/5] " Kaigai Kohei
2004-09-10 3:29 ` [PATCH] atomic_inc_return() for arm[3/5] " Kaigai Kohei
2004-09-10 3:30 ` [PATCH] atomic_inc_return() for arm26[1/5] " Kaigai Kohei
2004-09-10 3:32 ` [PATCH] atomic_inc_return() for sparc64[5/5] " Kaigai Kohei
2004-09-10 5:26 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-10 4:05 ` PATCH] atomic_inc_return() [0/5] " Kaigai Kohei
2004-09-10 6:37 ` Hugh Dickins
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