Atomic operations on i386/amd64
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Thu Aug 5 20:46:02 PDT 2004
John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 05 August 2004 01:04 am, Tim Robbins wrote:
>
>>Is there any particular reason why atomic_load_acq_*() and
>>atomic_store_rel_*() are implemented with CMPXCHG and XCHG instead of
>>MOV on i386/amd64 UP?
>
>
> Actually, using mov instead of lock xchg for store_rel reduced performance in
> some benchmarks Scott ran on an SMP machine, I'm guessing due to the higher
> latency of locks becoming available to other CPUs. I'm still waiting for
> benchmark results on UP to see if the change should be made under #ifndef SMP
> or some such.
>
Your patch appears to slightly pessimize UP as well and SMP.
Scott
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