Re: [RFC patch 15/27] Immediate Values - Documentation

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

* Adrian Bunk (bunk@kernel.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 06:52:54PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > +Memory read:
> > > +644.09ツア11.39 - 88.16ツア1.35 = 555.93ツア11.46 cycles
> > > +
> > > +Getppid without memory pressure:
> > > +1462.09ツア18.87 - 150.92ツア1.01 = 1311.17ツア18.90 cycles
> > > +
> > > +Getppid with memory pressure:
> > > +17113.33ツア1655.92 - 578.22ツア269.51 = 16535.11ツア1677.71 cycles
> > > +
> > > +Therefore, if we add 2 markers not based on immediate values to the getppid
> > > +code, which would add 2 memory reads, we would add
> > > +2 * 555.93ツア12.74 = 1111.86ツア25.48 cycles
> > 
> > sorry..
> > 
> > non ascii character is harmful for some language region user.
> > Couldn't you write ascii only?
> 
> The kernel is UTF-8, and this shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> The problem seems to be that Mathieu's emails don't contain a header 
> indicating the charset.
> 

I removed the UTF-8 characters for now. Someday I should fix my
quilt+exit4 setup, when I find the time. :)

Thanks,

Mathieu

> cu
> Adrian
> 
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