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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michael.Fetterman@cl.cam.ac.uk,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com>
Subject: Re: i386 PDA patches use of %gs
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:59:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060913095942.GA10075@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45075829.701@goop.org>


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> [...]  The basic inner loop is:
> 
> 	push %segreg
> 	mov  %selectorreg, %segreg
> 	add  $1,%segreg:offset	# use the segment register
> 	pop  %segreg

well, the most important thing i believe you didnt test: the effect of 
mixing two descriptors on the _same_ selector: one %gs selector value 
loaded and used by glibc, and another %gs selector value loaded and used 
by the kernel, intermixed. It's the mixing that causes the descriptor 
cache reload. (unless i missed some detail about your testcase)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-13 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-12  7:35 i386 PDA patches use of %gs Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-12  7:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-12  7:56   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-12  8:31     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 11:27     ` [PATCH] i386-pda UP optimization Eric Dumazet
2006-11-15 11:32       ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-15 17:20         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 17:24           ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-15 17:46             ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-15 17:49               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 17:58                 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-15 18:01                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-21 11:38               ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-21 21:42                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-21 21:52                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-21 22:10                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-21 21:58                   ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-21 23:12                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 17:28           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 17:32             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 17:59               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:05                 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-15 18:28                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:31                     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:01             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-15 18:24               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 19:06                 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-17  0:24                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 17:52       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-28 23:12       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-29  9:30         ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-29  9:56           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-13  1:00 ` i386 PDA patches use of %gs Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-13  9:59   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-09-13 16:17     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:26       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:29         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:43           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:44             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:39         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:43           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:49             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:49               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 19:00                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 19:03                   ` Ingo Molnar

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