Re: [PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Use lwarx hint in spinlocks
From: Anton Blanchard <hidden>
Date: 2010-02-17 09:37:14
From: Anton Blanchard <hidden>
Date: 2010-02-17 09:37:14
Hi Nick,
Cool. How does it go when there are significant amount of instructions between the lock and the unlock? A real(ish) workload, like dbench on ramdisk (which should hit the dcache lock).
Good question, I'll see if we can see a difference on dbench. Anton