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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: speeding up thread-creation
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:31:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106943948323107@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106940282522654@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:22:17 -0800, Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> said:

  Stephane> I assume you want to rely on the thread's flags to
  Stephane> determine if it is worth copying the thread_lazy structure
  Stephane> during a clone.

Yup.  I'd say "necessary" instead of "worth" though.  Also, we know
that the fph partition never needs to be copied (it contains scratch
registers only).

  Stephane> For perfmon, we may need to have two flags: one that says
  Stephane> we are storing information in pmds/pmcs and one that says
  Stephane> we need to context switch the PMU state. Today PM_VALID
  Stephane> flag is used to mean the latter only.

I think that would be fine.  In what cases would you want to clone the
PMU state when PM_VALID is false?

	--david

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-21 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-21  8:19 speeding up thread-creation David Mosberger
2003-11-21 17:22 ` Stephane Eranian
2003-11-21 18:31 ` David Mosberger [this message]

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