From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>,
Linux/MIPS Development <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Synthesize TLB refill handler at runtime
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:43:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041121204300.GA12664@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0411212048520.26374@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 08:50:30PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > currently we have a large number of TLB refill handlers written in
> > hand-optimized assembly which are mostly indentical. The appended
> > patch removes them all, and adds a micro-assembler instead which
> > synthesizes the proper variant for the CPU at runtime.
>
> Woow.....
This has been the plan for quite a while already. Nowhere else than in
the TLB exception handler more details about exception handling,
pipeline structure, SMP etc. become visible and benchmarkable in that
few instructions. Copy_page / clear_page have basically been a test
how well it'd work out - it did. So from that point it was just a
question of who was going to bite the bullet and do the work and Thiemo
did. Thanks!
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-21 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-21 17:02 [PATCH] Synthesize TLB refill handler at runtime Thiemo Seufer
2004-11-21 19:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-11-21 20:37 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-11-22 7:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-11-23 0:26 ` Manish Lachwani
2004-11-23 0:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-23 2:17 ` Manish Lachwani
2004-11-23 20:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-23 23:41 ` Manish Lachwani
2004-11-24 1:40 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-11-24 9:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-11-24 15:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-24 21:46 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-24 22:12 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-11-24 22:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-24 22:45 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-11-24 23:13 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-24 2:16 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-11-24 8:52 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-11-24 22:24 ` Manish Lachwani
2004-11-22 14:37 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-22 15:56 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-11-22 18:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-21 20:43 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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2004-11-29 19:14 Brad Larson
2004-11-29 19:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-29 19:57 Brad Larson
2004-11-29 20:20 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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