Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:16:00 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures |
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Nick Piggin writes:
> So i386 and x86-64 don't have volatiles there, and it saves them a > few K of kernel text. What you need to justify is why it is a good
I'm really surprised it's as much as a few K. I tried it on powerpc and it only saved 40 bytes (10 instructions) for a G5 config.
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