On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> The original code and your rewrite both access memory twice in the loop.
> Why don't we do it with one memory reference per loop instead?

Because the the cmpxchg usually succeeds. It is rare that we have to redo 
the loop.

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