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Date:      Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:52:02 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>, dfr@nlsystems.com, jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@ducky.net
Subject:   Re: "objtrm" problem probably found (was Re: Stuck in "objtrm") 
Message-ID:  <20136.931798322@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:47:11 PDT." <199907121647.JAA70249@apollo.backplane.com> 

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>    p.s.  I'm pretty sure that the lock prefix costs nothing on a UP system,
>    and probably wouldn't be noticed on an SMP system either because the
>    write-allocation overhead is already pretty bad.  But I haven't tested
>    it.

it's actually quite expensive in terms of bus bandwidth because a lot of
things have to be synchronized and stalled...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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