From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] i386 TIF flags for debug regs and io bitmap in ctxsw
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 23:47:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607042347.00598.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607041719_MC3-1-C420-EC5A@compuserve.com>
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 23:19, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <20060704072939.GC5902@frankl.hpl.hp.com>
>
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 00:29:39 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > Following my discussion with Andi. Here is a patch that introduces
> > two new TIF flags to simplify the context switch code in __switch_to().
> > The idea is to minimize the number of cache lines accessed in the common
> > case, i.e., when neither the debug registers nor the I/O bitmap are used.
>
> I get a 5-10% speedup in task switch times with this patch.
That sounds too much. How did you measure it?
Note that lmbench tends to be unstable for this.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-04 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-04 21:19 [PATCH 2/2] i386 TIF flags for debug regs and io bitmap in ctxsw Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-04 21:47 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-07-04 21:45 ` Stephane Eranian
2006-07-04 21:51 ` Stephane Eranian
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2006-07-05 11:44 Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-04 7:29 Stephane Eranian
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