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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Michael Cohen <me@ohdarn.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: Submissions for 2.4.19-pre [x86 Syscall Optimizations (Alexander Khripin)]
Date: 25 Feb 2002 22:19:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1014693559.883.5.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020225213255.2b403560.me@ohdarn.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020225210721.2ffa8fb1.me@ohdarn.net> <E16fXS2-0007SP-00@the-village.bc.nu>  <20020225213255.2b403560.me@ohdarn.net>

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 21:32, Michael Cohen wrote:
>
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Credit for the originator and an explanation would be helpful
>
> See Subject ^^ Alexander Khripin.  Looks to me like it improves latency
> quite a bit during syscalls.  I'm unable to find the exact mail but I
> believe I was referred to this particular patch by someone on lkml.

Eh?  The patch doesn't do anything but move movl ops around.  I suspect
the intention may to eliminate datapath stalls, which may be a fine
micro-optimization, but I think we need some numbers first ...

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-26  3:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-26  2:07 Submissions for 2.4.19-pre [x86 Syscall Optimizations (Alexander Khripin)] Michael Cohen
2002-02-26  2:34 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-26  2:32   ` Michael Cohen
2002-02-26  3:19     ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-02-26  3:26       ` Michael Cohen
2002-02-26  9:31         ` Alan Cox

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