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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: thread_info implementation
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:08:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C6832CC.D9D27F2F@linux-m68k.org> (raw)

Hi,

I'm currently wondering how to implement the recent thread_info changes
for m68k, unfortunately I can't find any discussion about it on lkml,
why it was done this way.

1. I more liked the previous byte fields instead of the bitmasks.
bitfield/bitmask instructions are at least 2 bytes longer than a simple
test instruction for m68k. I got this now nicely optimized (see
http://linux-m68k-cvs.apia.dhs.org/c/cvsweb/linux/arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S?rev=1.6&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup)
and changing it back to bitmasks would make it worse again.
2. I can understand that we split the task structure from the stack, but
why have thread_info and task_struct to be two different pointers? I'd
prefer two keep one pointer, through everything is accessed, that means
thread_info would be part of task_struct.

bye, Roman

             reply	other threads:[~2002-02-11 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-11 21:08 Roman Zippel [this message]
2002-02-11 20:50 ` thread_info implementation Anton Blanchard
2002-02-12  0:46   ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  0:57     ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-12  0:57       ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  1:10         ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-12 13:01         ` Bjorn Wesen
2002-02-12 13:49           ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  1:01     ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  1:07       ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  1:21         ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  1:32           ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  1:36             ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  1:41               ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  1:53                 ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  2:22                   ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  2:30                     ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  2:36                       ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  2:46                         ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  2:51                           ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  3:01                             ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  3:04                               ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  3:18                                 ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  3:23                                   ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  3:32                                     ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  3:42                                       ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  4:16                                         ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  4:21                                           ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  4:33                                             ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  5:26                                       ` Richard Henderson
2002-02-12  5:32                                         ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12  5:50                                           ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12  5:57                                           ` Richard Henderson
2002-02-13 11:18                                         ` Anton Blanchard
2002-02-12 17:14                                 ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-13  0:46                                   ` David S. Miller
2002-02-13  1:30                                     ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-12  9:12                             ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-12  9:30                               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-12 10:14                                 ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-12 13:21                             ` David Howells
2002-02-12 19:15                               ` David Mosberger
2002-02-12 19:38                                 ` David Howells
2002-02-12  2:49                       ` Davide Libenzi
2002-02-12  0:01 ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-12  0:10   ` David Howells
2002-02-12  0:22     ` Roman Zippel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-11 17:39 Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc
2002-02-11 20:19 ` Robert Love
2002-02-11 20:42   ` Luigi Genoni
2002-02-11 20:48     ` Robert Love
2002-02-11 23:37       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-11 23:49         ` Richard Henderson
2002-02-12  0:09           ` Dave Jones
2002-02-12  0:20             ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-12  0:24               ` Dave Jones

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