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SubjectRe: thread_info implementation
Hi,

"David S. Miller" wrote:

> So you essentially made your cache one cacheline smaller.
>
> Not at all, that cacheline has to be in the cache anyways because
> it also holds all the other information which needs to be accessed
> during trap entry/exit.
>
> Try again.

Larger code size due to the extra load?
At least two cache lines needed for any access to task_struct?
David, what are you trying to prove? Any architecture which has a thread
register prefers to access data directly through this register and it's
not really difficult to avoid this indirection, that might be needed on
ia32.

bye, Roman
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