Re: [PATCH v5 8/9] x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls

[Ingo Molnar]

* pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > A fastpath is defined by optimization considerations applied to a 
> > codepath (the priority it gets compared to other codepaths), 
> > *not* by its absolute performance.
> 
> we're not talking about random arbitrarily defined paths here but 
> the impact of putting well predicted branches into the pf handler 
> vs. int xx (are you perhaps confused by 'fast path' vs. 
> 'fastpath'?).

So please educate me, what is the difference between 'fast path' 
versus 'fastpath', as used by kernel developers, beyond the space?

> that impact only matters if it's measurable. you have yet to show 
> that it is. and all this sillyness is for a hypothetical situation 
> since those conditional branches don't even need to be in the 
> general page fault processing paths.

Is this some sort of sick joke?

Do you *really* claim that the number of instructions executed in a 
fastpath do not matter and that our years-long effort to shave off an 
instruction here and there from the x86 do_page_fault() code were 
meaningless and that we can add branches with zero cost?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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