From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Pau Aliagas <linuxnow@newtral.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: i386/x86_64 segment register issuses (Re: PATCH: Fix x86 segment register access)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:52:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050331015257.GB20979@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503310253180.7060@pau.intranet.ct>
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:57:57AM +0200, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, H. J. Lu wrote:
>
> >>>That is what the assembler generates, and should have generated, for
> >>>"movw %ds,(%eax)" since Nov. 4, 2004.
> >>
> >>Could this be the reason for the reported slowdown in the last six months?
> >
> >Can you elaborate?
>
> There's an unexplained slowdown of kernel 2.6 detailed in this thread:
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/4940
>
It is dated as "November 13, 2002 - 13:58". The assembler change was
made on Nov. 4, 2004. I don't think they are related at all.
> I don't want at all to justify it with the change you talk about in gas,
> but maybe it is worth to check if it has anything to do with it. The
> slowdown happened in this last six months.
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-31 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20050326020506.GA8068@lucon.org>
2005-03-27 22:24 ` i386/x86_64 segment register issuses (Re: PATCH: Fix x86 segment register access) H. J. Lu
2005-03-28 15:47 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-28 17:46 ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-28 18:22 ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30 0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-30 1:53 ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30 2:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-30 4:00 ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-30 16:23 ` linux-os
2005-03-30 21:11 ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30 21:08 ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30 22:18 ` Pau Aliagas
2005-03-31 0:34 ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-31 0:57 ` Pau Aliagas
2005-03-31 1:52 ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2005-03-31 10:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-30 15:25 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-29 19:17 ` PATCH: i386/x86_64 segment register access update H. J. Lu
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