Re: PATCH: Always use ll/sc for mips

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

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, H. J. Lu wrote:

> > Which means the overhead of two syscalls instead of one sysmips() call
> > for something that is assumed to be dirt cheap.  R3000, R5900 etc.
> > users won't this patch you, which'll have significant impact on their
> > glibc performance.
> 
> Not all ll/sc usages are implemented with sysmips. Does mips care about
> those? In case of libstdc++, should mips use ll/sc emulation?

 Anything external to glibc should use _test_and_set() which is a
published interface. 

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