Re: MIPS_ATOMIC_SET again (Re: newest kernel

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> My favourit would be to let the glibc on runtime decide whether
> to use sysmips or ll/sc in the atomic test_and_set stuff. This would
> lead to an common atom op in the userspace which is fast on ll/sc 
> cpus and gives much lesser performance penaltys in the sysmips case
> than emulating ll/sc.

 How would you do it for inlined code?

 Anyway, I consider run-time detection of ll/sc an overkill.  You only
solve a single inefficiency of ISA I code when run on better CPUs.  You
really want to recompile code to make use of new instructions if you care
about performance.

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