Re: [GIT PULL] slab fixes for 3.2-rc4

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> xadd is 3 cycles. add is one cycle.

On some uarchs. On new uarchs it can be a single cycle, I think, and
on some uarchs it will even be microcoded and/or only go in one pipe
because it has that odd behavior that it writes both to memory and a
register, and thus doesn't fit the normal fastpaths.

The point is, xadd isn't actually any faster than just doing the
regular "add and read". It's *slower*.

There really isn't ever any reason to use xadd on percpu variables.
That's my point. You claimed that there was a performance advantage.
There really isn't.

So why are you still arguing?

                           Linus
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