From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>,
Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>,
Pablo Fischer <exilion@yifan.net>,
Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: StackPages errors (CALLTRACE)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:03:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020709030259.GA113@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17QaN6-0004Ci-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Hi!
> > There has also been a patch on L-K which implments CMOV on prior-PPro
> > processors. john
>
> It has a hideous overhead. Just dont use cmov blindly in kernels. The kernel
> stuff will take care not to let the compiler stick cmov instructions into
> a non ppro+ kernel
Not only nasty overhead but potential nasty implications. You get
exception where you'd normaly get simple instruction. Do NOT use cmov
emulation for kernel.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-09 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207051154160.14284-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-07-05 17:06 ` StackPages errors (CALLTRACE) Pablo Fischer
2002-07-05 17:43 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-05 19:50 ` John Alvord
2002-07-05 21:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 3:03 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-07-05 6:06 Pablo Fischer
2002-07-05 9:24 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-07-05 16:47 ` Pablo Fischer
2002-07-05 20:00 ` Diego Calleja
2002-07-05 21:21 ` Alan Cox
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