From 824975ef190e7dcb77718d1cc2cb53769b16d918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:39:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_add_return() Linus noted (based on Eric Dumazet's numbers) that we would probably be better off not trying an atomic_read() in atomic64_add_return() but intead intentionally let the first cmpxchg8b fail - to get a cache-friendly 'give me ownership of this cacheline' transaction. That can then be followed by the real cmpxchg8b which sets the value local to the CPU. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: David Howells Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed