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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RWSEM: Rewrite rwsem.c and rwsem-spinlock.c more simply.
Date: 25 Mar 2008 13:08:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skyfgg4y.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803250659530.18358@localhost.localdomain>

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:

> Rewrite these source files more simply by deleting the superfluous
> "tsk" task_struct pointer and rephrasing in terms of the "current"
> task pointer.

This is likely a code pessimization because "current" is inline
assembler and many gcc versions cannot CSE it.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-25 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25 11:02 [PATCH] RWSEM: Rewrite rwsem.c and rwsem-spinlock.c more simply Robert P. J. Day
2008-03-25 12:08 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-03-25 12:27   ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-03-25 12:36     ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 12:42       ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-03-25 19:14         ` Andrew Morton

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