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    DateThu, 29 Nov 2007 20:44:16 +0100
    FromIngo Molnar <>
    SubjectRe: [PATCH x86/mm 6/6] x86-64 ia32 ptrace get/putreg32 current task
    * Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
    
    > For i386 iirc Jeremy/Zach did the benchmarking and they settled on %fs 
    > because it was faster for something (originally it was %gs too)
    
    yep. IIRC, some CPUs only optimize %fs because that's what Windows uses 
    and leaves Linux with %gs out in the cold. There's also a performance 
    penalty for overlapping segment use, if the segment cache is single 
    entry only with an additional optimization for NULL [which just hides 
    the segment cache].
    
    But if it's good for unification we could switch that to %gs again on 
    32-bit. I was one of the people who advocated the use of the 'other' 
    segment register, so that the hardware has less overlap, but clean and 
    unified code trumps this concern. It shouldnt be an issue on reasonably 
    modern CPUs anyway.
    
    	Ingo
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