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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add do_not_call_when_idle option to timer and workqueue
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:50:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45640F56.5040509@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4563F05C.4090809@argo.co.il>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> The lsb of a function pointer is used in variable length instruction 
> processors (such as x86 when optimizing for size).  The msb is constant 
> though.
> 

x86 aligns the start of functions to 4 bytes even when optimizing for 
size though...

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-22  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-22  0:28 [RFC][PATCH] Add do_not_call_when_idle option to timer and workqueue Venkatesh Pallipadi
2006-11-22  2:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-22  6:38   ` Avi Kivity
2006-11-22  8:50     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-11-22 17:13   ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2006-11-22 20:02     ` Andrew Morton

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