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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2006-03-23 03:01:02 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-23 07:38:17 -0800 |
| commit | 0b2fcfdb8b4e7e379192f24ea2203163ddf5df1d (patch) | |
| tree | 1f3995e41ab12ff76e737389e0b59a40c0c73668 /fs/file_table.c | |
| parent | 713729e8b993cb880225e2ced50a3f5ac05c2b3f (diff) | |
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[PATCH] atomic: add_unless cmpxchg optimise
Without branch hints, the very unlikely chance of the loop repeating due to
cmpxchg failure is unrolled with gcc-4 that I have tested.
Improve this for architectures with a native cas/cmpxchg. llsc archs
should try to implement this natively.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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