Re: [patch] epoll use a single inode ...

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Wed Mar 07 2007 - 17:17:48 EST



Hi,

> Well, I hope a prefetch(NULL) is OK because we are doing millions of
> them (see include/linux/list.h :) )

Funny you mention this. We found some noticeable ppc64 regressions when
moving the dcache to standard list macros and had to do this to fix it
up:

static inline void prefetch(const void *x)
{
if (unlikely(!x))
return;

__asm__ __volatile__ ("dcbt 0,%0" : : "r" (x));
}

Urgh :)

Anton
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