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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6] Implement per-processor data areas for i386.
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:04:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608272004.38280.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060827172155.GA21724@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>


> Something like that had to be done eventually about the inefficient
> current_thread_info() mechanism, 

Inefficient? It's two fast instructions. I won't call that inefficient.

> I guess it's due to having tried that on an older installation with gcc 3.2,
> which probably does less efficient opcode merging of current_thread_info()
> requests compared to a current gcc version.

gcc normally doesn't merge inline assembly at all.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-27 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-27  8:44 [PATCH RFC 0/6] Implement per-processor data areas for i386 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27  8:44 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] Basic definitions for i386-pda Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27  8:44 ` [PATCH RFC 2/6] Initialize the per-CPU data area Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27  8:44 ` [PATCH RFC 3/6] Use %gs as the PDA base-segment in the kernel Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27  9:49   ` Keith Owens
2006-08-27 10:01     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27 15:57   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 16:36     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27 17:20     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27 18:19       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 20:03         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-27 23:38         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-28  9:51         ` Jan Beulich
2006-08-28 14:54           ` H. J. Lu
2006-08-28 17:24         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27  8:44 ` [PATCH RFC 4/6] Fix places where using %gs changes the usermode ABI Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27 15:59   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 16:37     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27  8:44 ` [PATCH RFC 5/6] Implement smp_processor_id() with the PDA Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27  8:44 ` [PATCH RFC 6/6] Implement "current" " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27 16:01   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 16:38     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27  9:47 ` [PATCH RFC 0/6] Implement per-processor data areas for i386 Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-27 16:46   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27 17:44     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-27 18:07       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 18:27         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27 16:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 16:41   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27 17:21 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-08-27 17:34   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-27 18:23     ` Andreas Mohr
2006-08-27 18:04   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-27 18:27     ` Andreas Mohr
2006-08-27 18:35       ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-28  9:06 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-30  9:00 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-30  9:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-30 12:33 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-30 12:54 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 16:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-30 16:48   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 17:13     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-30 17:32       ` Andi Kleen

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