See prefetching - the CPU prefetching will hide some of the effect and
the spin_lock_prefetch() macro does wonders for the rest.
Well, if prefetching can do it faster than avoiding the transaction
altogether, I'm game :-)
Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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