Re: FW: [patch 1/6] remove dead code in ia64_leave_kernel

David Mosberger-Tang
2006-02-01T03:12:26Z

On 1/31/06, Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> wrote:

> Having said that, I have a craze idea of optimize away two bsp reads
> along with cover instruction in the syscall leave path. I'm still
> exploring whether that is achievable or not. If we can do that, then
> all that latency would go away along with the code that this patch moved.

That would be nice, indeed.

--david
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