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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:16:27 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use CAS instead of atomic swap to implement
spinlock
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:44:53AM +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> This should allow spinning without constantly dirtying cache lines holding the
> spinlock value. On architectures without native atomic swap, musl implement
> a_swap by looping around a_cas.
It won't help on x86, where all lock-prefixed ops perform both a read
and a write even if they fail. But it should help in ll/sc style
archs, and shouldn't hurt on x86.
Rich
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