Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:48:03 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] i386: use thread_info flags for debug regs and IO bitmaps |
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On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > After I saw a ~7% gain in task-switch performance, I like it now > even without perfmon2 in there.
So is the 7% performance gain visible with just that single patch (presumably because it avoids a cache miss associated with reading the processor state further away?)
If you have performance improvement numbers for just this one patch, I have no objections (but it would be good to then make those numbers part of the commit message).
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