On 10/06/2011 10:40 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > However, it looks like locked xadd is also has better performance: on > my Sandybridge laptop (2 cores, 4 threads), the add+mfence is 20% slower > than locked xadd, so that pretty much settles it unless you think > there'd be a dramatic difference on an AMD system. Konrad measures add+mfence is about 65% slower on AMD Phenom as well. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html