Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:51:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke |
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Yes, that should work. It's still ugly, and I have to say I find the > complexity rather distasteful. I am willing to be convinced it's worth it, > but I would really like to see hard numbers.
I really cannot imagine that this kind of pain is *ever* worth it.
Please give an example of something so important that we'd want to do complex code rewriting on the fly. What _is_ the point of imv_cond()?
Linus
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