Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Slight optimizations to entry.S patch | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:49:54 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I was familiarizing (or trying to) myself with the i386 architecture code, > and saw a few possible optimizations. I think they can save a few cycles (not > that many). Can someone comment? Are the changes worthwhile?
Measure them and see - look at the rdtsc instruction, run a million iterations of all the various variants and see what you find - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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