From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:53:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020214155355.A32018@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> <12214.1013706194@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <12214.1013706194@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>; from dhowells@redhat.com on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:03:14PM +0000
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:03:14PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Ask Linus, he asked for the task_struct/thread_info split. Various people have
> complained about the two things being allocated separately (maintainers for
> m68k and ia64 archs certainly, and if I remember rightly, x86_64 as well,
> though I don't appear to have saved the message for that). However, DaveM
> (sparc64) appears to really be in favour of it.
I'm not especially in favour of it for Alpha either.
As far as I can see all it's done is added a memory load on the
fast path when a constant displacement folded into the address
would previously have sufficed.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-14 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-14 15:26 [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch David Howells
2002-02-14 16:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-14 16:32 ` David Howells
2002-02-14 16:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-14 17:03 ` David Howells
2002-02-14 20:48 ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-14 23:53 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2002-02-15 9:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 10:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 11:25 ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 11:37 ` David Howells
2002-02-15 12:20 ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 12:56 ` David Howells
2002-02-15 13:49 ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 13:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 14:22 ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 14:07 ` David Howells
2002-02-15 14:28 ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 21:56 ` Richard Henderson
2002-02-15 21:52 ` Richard Henderson
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