From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750974AbWGCTZ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:25:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751236AbWGCTZ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:25:57 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:16356 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750974AbWGCTZ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:25:56 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: eranian@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] 2.6.17.1 perfmon2 patch for review: PMU context switch Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:25:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200606230913.k5N9D73v032387@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <20060703094948.GA4460@frankl.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060703094948.GA4460@frankl.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607032125.48727.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 03 July 2006 11:49, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Andi, > > Here is a first cut at the patch to simplify the context > switch for the common case and also touch 2 cachelines (instead of 3). > There are 2 new TIF flags. I just tried this on x86_64 but I believe > we could do the same on i386. > > Is that what you were thinking about? Yes, looks good. Thanks, -Andi