Hi Nick, > Ah, good to see this one come back. I also tested tbench over localhost > btw which actually did show some speedup on the G5. > > BTW. this was the last thing left: > http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg29738.html > > Don't know if you took a look at that again, but maybe it's worth > looking at. Hmm, we do actually seem to be growing number of smp_mb* > calls in core kernel too.
Interesting idea! I do worry we will get a late night visit from the architecture police. From memory they want the complete larx, stcwx, bne, isync sequence to guarantee an acquire barrier. Anton _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
