Re: Submissions for 2.4.19-pre [x86 Syscall Optimizations (Alexander Khripin)]

From: Michael Cohen (me@ohdarn.net)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 22:26:53 EST


On 25 Feb 2002 22:19:17 -0500
Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:

> > See Subject ^^ Alexander Khripin. Looks to me like it improves latency
> > quite a bit during syscalls. I'm unable to find the exact mail but I
> > believe I was referred to this particular patch by someone on lkml.
>
> 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 :)

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