Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: softirq bugs in pre2 | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:55:49 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The copy-user latency fixes only make sense for out-of-line copies. If > we're going to have a conditional function call to "schedule()", we do not > want to inline the dang thing any more - we've just destroyed our register > set etc anyway.
Is there any reason we still inline so many copy_* and put/get user calls. I can't benchmark a difference out of line and the code shrinkage is more than measurable (AMD Athlon 550 and AMD Athlon 1GHz) - 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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