From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Coywolf Qi Hunt Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:52:17 +0000 Subject: Re: Prefetch kernel stacks to speed up context switch Message-Id: <2cd57c900509070152518fac06@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <200509070829.j878TSg25898@unix-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <200509070829.j878TSg25898@unix-os.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Chen, Kenneth W" Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton On 9/7/05, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > Repost previously discussed patch (on Jul 27, 2005). Ingo did > the same thing for all arch with 471 lines of patch. I'm still > advocating this little 30 lines patch, of 6 lines introduces > prefetch_stack() generic interface. > > Andrew, please consider -mm inclusion. Or advise me what I need > to do to take this forward. Thanks. > > - Ken Do you have any benchmarks? -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/