From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Do not use FASTCALL for __alloc_pages_nodemask()
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:51:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708181451.47219.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708171406520.9635@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Friday 17 August 2007 23:07:33 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> > Opinions as to why FASTCALL breaks on one machine are welcome.
>
> Could we get rid of FASTCALL? AFAIK the compiler should automatically
> choose the right calling convention?
It was a nop for some time because register parameters are always enabled
on i386 and AFAIK no other architectures ever used it. Some out of tree
trees some to disable register parameters though, but that's not
really a concern.
-Andi
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-17 20:16 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v4 Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 20:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] Use zonelists instead of zones when direct reclaiming pages Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 20:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered instead of multiple zonelists Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 20:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-21 8:51 ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 20:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] Embed zone_id information within the zonelist->zones pointer Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 21:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-21 8:54 ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 20:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] Record how many zones can be safely skipped in the zonelist Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 21:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-21 8:58 ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 20:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 21:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-21 9:12 ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 20:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] Do not use FASTCALL for __alloc_pages_nodemask() Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 21:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-18 12:51 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-08-21 10:25 ` Mel Gorman
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