Re: [andrea@suse.de: Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:58:12 +0200


On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:23:47AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Andrea seems to have changed his mind on the non-inlining in the generic case.

I changed my mind because if you benchmark the fast path you will do it without
running out of icache (basically only down_* and up_* will be in the icache
during the tight loop). And either ways shouldn't make a measurable difference
in a real life benchmark.

Andrea
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