RFR(xs): 8211387: [Zero] atomic_copy64: Use ldrexd for atomic reads on ARMv7

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Oct 9 08:28:27 UTC 2018


On 10/06/2018 10:52 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Bottom line seems to be:
> - clrex is not essential
> - clrex is probably not harmful to performance
> - clrex may benefit performance

clrex may also make performance worse: it's another instruction, after all.

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