From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@infinera.com>
Cc: "danielwa@cisco.com" <danielwa@cisco.com>,
"dwmw2@infradead.org" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"nkela@cisco.com" <nkela@cisco.com>,
"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
"xe-linux-external@cisco.com" <xe-linux-external@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2: implement mount option to configure endianness
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 07:25:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181108152530.GA27198@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bee96cb5db73c325675881b180006e1382718abe.camel@infinera.com>
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 06:41:47PM +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Certainly not. I'm not sure which architectures do have Spectre V2
> > mitigations which make indirect branches expensive now... perhaps there is
> > no intersection with the cases where we really care about JFFS2 being
> > CPU-bound?
>
> All that passing of a new extra arg and extra if .. elif .. does cost too.
I know of no current microarchitecture where an indirect call is cheaper
than a simple branch, which can be very well predicted.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-08 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-06 21:49 [PATCH] jffs2: implement mount option to configure endianness Nikunj Kela
2018-11-07 9:05 ` David Woodhouse
2018-11-07 9:16 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2018-11-07 16:12 ` David Woodhouse
2018-11-07 17:33 ` Daniel Walker
2018-11-07 17:58 ` David Woodhouse
2018-11-07 18:41 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2018-11-08 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-11-07 19:21 ` Daniel Walker
2018-11-07 18:04 ` Nikunj Kela (nkela)
2018-11-07 18:14 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-11-08 8:11 ` David Woodhouse
2018-11-08 18:01 ` Nikunj Kela (nkela)
2018-11-08 18:50 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2018-11-08 19:47 ` David Woodhouse
2018-11-12 21:43 ` Daniel Walker
2018-11-12 22:50 ` Daniel Walker
2018-11-12 23:11 ` David Woodhouse
2018-11-12 23:40 ` Daniel Walker
2018-11-12 23:43 ` David Woodhouse
2018-11-13 0:06 ` Daniel Walker
2018-11-13 21:01 ` Daniel Walker
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