[PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Use lwarx hint in spinlocks

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Wed Feb 17 20:37:14 EST 2010


 
Hi Nick,

> Cool. How does it go when there are significant amount of instructions
> between the lock and the unlock? A real(ish) workload, like dbench on
> ramdisk (which should hit the dcache lock).

Good question, I'll see if we can see a difference on dbench.

Anton


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