Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:29:39 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: collapse the various size-dependent percpu accessors together |
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> We can use gcc's %z modifier to emit the appropriate size suffix for >> an instruction, so we don't need to duplicate the asm statement for >> each size. > > Nah, it's a disaster. Drop this one.
hm, what's the problem with it? What you are trying to do here looks like a nice cleanup - assuming it results in the same instructions emitted ;-)
Ingo
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