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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:59:39 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Info: NAPI performance at "low" loads
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   From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
   Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:53:03 +0200

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     $ loadtest

This appears to be x86 only, sorry I can't test this out for you as
all my boxes are sparc64.

I was actually eager to try your tests out here.

Do you really need to use x86 instructions to do what you
are doing?  There are portable pthread mutexes available.