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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: hawkes@sgi.com, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: disable preemption in udelay()
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:14:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134742468.28761.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051216010440.GA9886@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com>

On Iau, 2005-12-15 at 17:04 -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Being out-of-line would reduce accuracy, but this would only be
> significant when the sleep is for a very small number of microseconds.

Even then its a predicted branch to code that will probably be in cache
so really ought to have no material impact.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-16 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-14 23:25 [PATCH] ia64: disable preemption in udelay() hawkes
2005-12-14 23:25 ` hawkes
2005-12-15 22:50 ` Luck, Tony
2005-12-15 22:50   ` Luck, Tony
2005-12-16  1:04   ` Luck, Tony
2005-12-16  1:04     ` Luck, Tony
2005-12-16  8:20     ` Christian Hildner
2005-12-16  8:20       ` Christian Hildner
2005-12-16 14:14     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-12-16  1:52   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-16  1:52     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-16  2:03     ` Lee Revell
2005-12-16  2:03       ` Lee Revell
2005-12-16  2:12       ` John Hawkes
2005-12-16  2:12         ` John Hawkes
2005-12-16  2:40         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-16  2:40           ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-16  3:19         ` Lee Revell
2005-12-16  3:19           ` Lee Revell
2005-12-22 21:45           ` Bill Davidsen
2005-12-22 21:45             ` Bill Davidsen
2005-12-16  2:37       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-16  2:37         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-16  2:42 ` hawkes
2005-12-16  2:42   ` hawkes
2005-12-16 12:28   ` Robin Holt
2005-12-16 12:28     ` Robin Holt
2005-12-16 17:33     ` Luck, Tony
2005-12-16 17:33       ` Luck, Tony
2005-12-16 18:39       ` John Hawkes
2005-12-16 18:39         ` John Hawkes
2005-12-23  0:14 ` Keith Owens
2005-12-23  0:14   ` Keith Owens
2005-12-23  5:58   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-23  6:03     ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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