From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: why does the macro "ZERO_PAGE" take an argument?
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:29:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070607192911.GV6909@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4668412D.3030506@zytor.com>
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> although it's not clear where in the source tree are the invocations
>> that would actually make a difference to a MIPS system, which is why
>> i've CC'ed ralf on this. i'm sure he can clear this up. :-)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:32:29AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> x86 could also benefit from coloured zeropages. In fact, I thought it
> already had them (K8 wants as many as 8.)
How would one demonstrate the beneficial effect of such?
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-07 11:17 why does the macro "ZERO_PAGE" take an argument? Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-07 11:29 ` Nick Piggin
2007-06-07 11:34 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-07 11:39 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-07 11:53 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-07 16:37 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-06-07 18:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-07 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-07 19:29 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-06-07 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-08 7:25 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-09 0:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-12 2:18 ` Nick Piggin
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