:> The entire thread is here: :> http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/this-week/subject.html#start :> :> The subject is: spin_unlock optimization(i386) : :A bit worrying, to say the least, especially coming from Linus (even moreso :in light of his work at transmeta and what they're doing with/to Intel cpu's). : :Cheers, :-Peter

hmm. I was under the impression that the Pentium serialized writes by reserving locations through their caches. But knowing Intel, Linus is probably right.

Sometimes I wish I could just take a gun to the Pentium.

But this isn't a big deal, we should simply be able to do a locked write into the per-cpu area to synchronize just before we release the lock. This is still going to be a whole lot more efficient then trying to lock a write to the shared lock, because we will almost certainly already own that memory location.

I'll run some tests and commit a solution Nobody commit anything. No matter what, we still get the benefit of the recursion lock optimization which is actually the more important one.

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