[PATCH 1/2] lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementation
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Jun 15 12:44:45 EST 2009
> The new Nehalems provide 8 logical threads in a single socket. All
> those threads share a cache, and they have cmpxchg8b anyway, so this
> won't matter.
FWIW, Nehalem EX actually goes to 8 cores/16 threads per socket. But
worrying about 32-bit performance on Nehalem is a little silly -- this
simplest solution is simply to run a 64-bit kernel.
- R.
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