On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Zoltan Menyhart wrote: > Could you consider using some cache hints, like "ld8.bias.nta"? > "bias" is a hint to acquire exclusive ownership. > "nta" is a hint to allocate the cache line only in L2 > (and side effect: to bias it to be replaced). > All of the Itanium 2 processor's atomic instructions are handled > exclusively by the L2 cache. Could you come up with a patch? Currently, I do not seem to be able to spend enough time on it. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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