From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] pseries: avoid excess rtas calls
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:57:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070808215738.GC10114@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070808200115.GA20134@austin.ibm.com>
Linas Vepstas wrote:
>
> We don't need to look up the rtas event token once per
> cpu per second. This avoids some misc string ops and
> rtas calls and provides some minor performance improvement.
It does not avoid any calls to RTAS. (rtas_token merely looks up
properties under the /rtas node.)
Otherwise, looks okay.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 19:59 [PATCH 0/6] pseries: rtas & nvram cleanup/simpilification Linas Vepstas
2007-08-08 20:01 ` [PATCH 1/6] pseries: avoid excess rtas calls Linas Vepstas
2007-08-08 20:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] pseries: use rtas_token instead of hand-rolled code Linas Vepstas
2007-08-08 20:03 ` [PATCH 3/6] pseries: simplify rtasd initialization Linas Vepstas
2007-08-08 20:04 ` [PATCH 4/6] powerpc: remove nvram forward declarations Linas Vepstas
2007-08-08 20:06 ` [PATCH 5/6] pseries: fix jumbled no_logging flag Linas Vepstas
2007-08-08 20:07 ` [PATCH 6/6] pseries: eliminate global var Linas Vepstas
2007-08-08 21:57 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-08-08 22:22 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-09 1:02 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-08-09 20:56 ` [PATCH 6/6 v2] " Linas Vepstas
2007-08-08 21:57 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2007-08-08 22:20 ` [PATCH 1/6] pseries: avoid excess rtas calls Linas Vepstas
2007-08-09 21:01 ` [PATCH 1/6 v2] " Linas Vepstas
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