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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] etherigbe.c using _xinc?
Date: Tue,  8 Dec 2009 19:32:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94720e19021f594c5f0007d2b975d14f@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<dd6fe68a0912081552s30851f04n109e56479bb423cb@mail.gmail.com>>

> but the former does two operations and the latter
> only one.  your claim was that _xinc is slower
> than incref (== lock(), x++, unlock()).  but you are
> timing xinc+xdec against incref.

sure.  i was looking it as a kernel version of a
semaphore.

back to the original problem, before allocb/freeb
did 2 lock/unlocks.  now it does 2 unlock/locks
+ 2 xinc/xdec, and is, in the best case 31% slower.
and in the worst case 90% slower.  the reference
counting is a heavy price to pay on every network
block, when it is only used by ip/gre.c.

- erik



       reply	other threads:[~2009-12-09  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<dd6fe68a0912081552s30851f04n109e56479bb423cb@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-09  0:32 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-12-09  1:05   ` Russ Cox
     [not found] <<dd6fe68a0912081705q6fad8a6cl20ca648397070dae@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-09  2:04 ` erik quanstrom
2009-12-08 16:25 Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-12-08 16:36 ` erik quanstrom
2009-12-08 19:35   ` Russ Cox
2009-12-08 19:52     ` John Floren
2009-12-08 20:00     ` erik quanstrom
2009-12-08 23:52       ` Russ Cox

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