Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:53:55 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch |
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:03:14PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Ask Linus, he asked for the task_struct/thread_info split. Various people have > complained about the two things being allocated separately (maintainers for > m68k and ia64 archs certainly, and if I remember rightly, x86_64 as well, > though I don't appear to have saved the message for that). However, DaveM > (sparc64) appears to really be in favour of it.
I'm not especially in favour of it for Alpha either.
As far as I can see all it's done is added a memory load on the fast path when a constant displacement folded into the address would previously have sufficed.
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