Andi Kleen wrote:

>On Sunday 07 August 2005 14:16, Zachary Amsden wrote:
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>FYI I have queued it, but cannot apply it because the necessary generic
>code support is still not in mainline.
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Here's the patch for generic / i386 support; it's already in the -mm tree.

>Do you have any other optimizations pending for x86-64? 
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>There is still the iopl optimization that you did that is on my TODO list to 
>add. Anything else.
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I started porting the IOPL work, but got confused in my tree and end up 
patching asm-i386 with x86-64 code.  The joy of  unenforced source control!

I have some other MMU optimizations pending that will hopefully be a win 
for all architectures; still measuring which alternative is best there.

Zach