Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Submissions for 2.4.19-pre [x86 Syscall Optimizations (Alexander Khripin)] | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:31:09 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > Eh? The patch doesn't do anything but move movl ops around. I suspect > > the intention may to eliminate datapath stalls, which may be a fine > > micro-optimization, but I think we need some numbers first ... > > UNIXbench numbers on the way :)
Remember to get them with more than one vendor and family of processors. Quite a lot of proposed micro-optimisations turn out to be pessimisations except for the processor of the original proposer 8( - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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