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. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +