From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:38:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wu1a8xzv.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2gLD2-qn-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:30:09 +0200")
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:02:25AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Apropos of nothing much, CONFIG_X86 would be preferreed here, but x86_64
>> defines that too.
>
> IMO, x86-64 should stop defining CONFIG_X86. It's far more common
> to say "X86 && !X86_64" than it is to say X86. How about defining
> CONFIG_X86_COMMON and migrating usage of X86 to X86_COMMON?
Definitely not in 2.6 because it has far too much potential to
add subtle bugs, and that is not appropiate for a stable release.
In 2.7 maybe.
Buy I would prefer to just add an truly i386 specific define
like Andrew proposed.
-Andi
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2004-07-11 10:09 ` serious performance regression due to NX patch Andi Kleen
2004-07-11 11:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-11 12:43 ` Andi Kleen
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2004-07-11 13:38 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-07-11 14:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-07-10 5:28 David Mosberger
2004-07-10 5:28 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-11 8:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-11 8:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-11 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-11 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-11 9:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-11 9:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-11 10:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-11 10:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-11 12:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-07-11 12:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-07-11 10:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-11 10:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-11 12:38 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-07-11 12:38 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-07-12 18:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-12 18:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-12 18:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-12 18:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-12 18:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-12 18:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-12 19:10 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-12 19:10 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-12 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-12 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-12 20:08 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-12 20:08 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-12 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-12 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-12 20:21 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-12 20:21 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-12 20:24 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-12 20:24 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-13 4:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-13 4:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-13 5:23 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-13 5:23 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-13 16:05 ` Mark Haverkamp
2004-07-13 16:05 ` Mark Haverkamp
2004-07-13 16:49 ` Daniel McNeil
2004-07-13 16:49 ` Daniel McNeil
2004-07-17 0:06 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-17 0:06 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-17 1:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-17 1:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-17 4:37 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-17 4:37 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-13 3:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-13 3:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-17 0:35 ` David Mosberger
2004-07-17 0:35 ` David Mosberger
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