Re: [PATCH] x86: percpu_to_op() misses memory and flags clobbers

[Herbert Xu]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> There's probably not a lot of value in this.  The Intel and AMD 
> optimisation guides tend to deprecate inc/dec in favour of using 
> add/sub, because the former can cause pipeline stalls due to its partial 
> flags update.

Is this still the case on the latest Intel CPUs?

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