Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:46:25 +0100 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 |
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:08:03PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Matt Mackall wrote: > > >On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:33:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Have you considered Adrian Bunk's CPU selection rationalisation work? > >> > > > >Vaguely aware of it. > > > > Basically, because the types of x86 cpus are only partially ordered, > and a the CPU selection somehow tries to follow the rule "this CPU or > higher", there ends up being a bit of stuff included which doesn't > need to be. Not sure what the savings add up to though... >...
Some savings are possible as a side effect of my patch (the main goal is to make the selection of multiple CPUs more user friendly).
I'll send the patch and 2 proof of concept space saving patches as replies to this mail.
cu Adrian
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