Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4 v4] ftrace/x86: Add save_regs for i386 functioncalls

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/19/2012 05:58 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>
>> also, because lea is faster than add (and doesn't even modify flags), I
>> changed the last part to use lea instead of addl.
> 
> Now I'm told that this is not always the case (at least not for Atom),
> so I reverted this part and put back the addl. But can you still give
> you reviewed by for the first part?
> 

lea is not typically faster than add, but in the case of Atom, it is
done in an earlier pipeline stage (AGU instead of ALU) which means lea
is faster if its inputs are already available as address expressions and
is consumed by address expressions; the goal is to avoid the ALU->AGU
forwarding latency.

	-hpa


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