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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: michael@ellerman.id.au
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: save trap number in bad_stack
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:51:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3519d3b3474ab6530e6e1092e3d60d0@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177035524.6890.7.camel@concordia.ozlabs.ibm.com>

>>> +	u64 trap_save;			/* Used when bad stack is encountered */
>>
>> Can you put it elsewhere in the PACA (around less frequently used
>> bits) ? This is a pretty hot area of the PACA...
>
> It's only set in the bad_stack case though.
>
> You should put it after cpu_start, there's a bit hole there, and
> trap_save is readonly during normal operation, so it shouldn't be a
> performance hit.

That's not a performance hit compared to the current
state of the code, sure; but that "hot slot" could
be used for a hotter variable, instead.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-20  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-16  6:23 [PATCH] powerpc: save trap number in bad_stack Olof Johansson
2007-04-19 23:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-20  2:18   ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-20  8:51     ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-04-22 23:34   ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-22 23:38 ` [PATCH] [v2] " Olof Johansson
2007-04-23  9:29   ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-04-23 11:49     ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-23 12:19   ` [PATCH] [v3] " Olof Johansson
2007-04-23 15:11     ` [PATCH] [v4] " Olof Johansson
2007-04-23 15:34       ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-23 13:22   ` [PATCH] [v2] " Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-23 13:33     ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-23 13:39     ` David Gibson
2007-04-23 13:54     ` Olof Johansson

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