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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Replace posix-aio with custom thread pool
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 18:26:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081206182633.GB8326@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580812060103o32c2aec9x5d6bcdc344d0ed8f@mail.gmail.com>

Blue Swirl wrote:
> I like to use unsigned types whenever possible, IIRC compilers may
> generate better code with those.

On the one hand, unsigned division can sometimes be compiled faster,
depends on the architecture's div instructions.

On the other hand, signed operations can be optimised by GCC with
-fstrict-overflow, while the same unsigned operations cannot be so optimised.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-06 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-05 21:21 [RFC] Replace posix-aio with custom thread pool Anthony Liguori
2008-12-05 21:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-12-06  9:03 ` Blue Swirl
2008-12-06 18:26   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-12-08 18:23   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-08 18:23     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 15:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-09 16:01   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-10 16:44     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-10 17:21       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-10 17:21         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-10 17:29         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-10 18:50           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-10 19:08             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-10 19:08               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-11 13:12               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-11 15:24                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-11 15:24                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-11 15:53                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-11 15:53                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-11 16:11                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-11 16:11                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-11 16:49                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-11 16:49                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-11 17:20                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-11 17:20                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-11 18:11                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-11 18:11                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-11 20:38                             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-11 20:38                               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-11 20:40                             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12  8:23                             ` Jens Axboe
2008-12-12  8:23                               ` Jens Axboe
2008-12-12 11:51                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 11:51                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 11:54                                 ` Jens Axboe
2008-12-12 11:54                                   ` Jens Axboe
2008-12-12 14:13                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 14:13                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 14:24                                     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 14:24                                       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 16:33                                       ` Chris Wright
2008-12-12 16:33                                         ` Chris Wright
2008-12-12 16:51                                         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 16:51                                           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 16:52                                           ` Chris Wright
2008-12-12 16:52                                             ` Chris Wright
2008-12-11 21:32                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-12  0:27                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12  0:27                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-11 21:30                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-11 16:41                   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-11 16:41                     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 14:24               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 14:24                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 14:35                 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 14:35                   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 15:44                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 15:44                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 16:49                     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 16:49                       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 17:09                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 17:09                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 17:25                         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 17:25                           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 17:52                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 17:52                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 18:17                             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 18:17                               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 18:26                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-12 20:12                                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 20:17                                   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-12 20:35                                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-09 17:16   ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-17 14:44 ` Ian Jackson

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