Re: lock performance on i386

Jason R Thorpe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp
Organization Wasabi Systems, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 07:30:05PM +0100, David Laight wrote:

 > Which means that if the lock is contended then the cpu is
 > doing continuous, expensive, locked operations on the bus.
 > Which, IIRC, force a cache snoop? cycle on all the cpus.

Yes, this is a known issue.  It's easy to fix, just haven't done it yet.

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