Arjan van de Ven wrote:
Just doing an atomic operation is not faster than doing a lock, an
atomic operation, then an unlock? Am I missing something?
if the lock and the atomic are on the same cacheline they're the same
cost on most modern cpus...
Ah, I see. Not likely to ever be the case with this. The lock will
likely be with the main data structure (the list, or whatever) and the
refcount will be in the individual item in the main data structure (list
entry).
-Corey
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