From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Tom Leete <tleete@mountain.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Athlon-SMP compiles & runs. inline fns honored.
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:29:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A85B2C9.56F7221D@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A8554FA.AB33BE05@mountain.net>
Tom Leete wrote:
>
> Hi Alan
>
> I found one way to break the circularity. The association of type and struct
> definitions with interlocking inline functions caused the problem. This
> extracts task_struct from linux/sched.h to its own header,
> linux/task_struct.h. There are a few modifications elsewhere to support
> this. I'm not sure all the changes were necessary, but they are working as I
> write:
[long patch snipped]
Ouch. What about un-inlining in_interrupt() for all SMP cases? Reduces
code size just a bit, and function calls aren't very expensive on SMP
machines IMHO... (and as a side effect solves this problem...)
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-10 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-10 14:49 [PATCH] Athlon-SMP compiles & runs. inline fns honored Tom Leete
2001-02-10 15:13 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-10 15:34 ` Tom Leete
2001-02-10 21:29 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-02-11 10:54 ` Alan Cox
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