Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 May 2006 23:22:15 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] Make powerpc64 use __thread for per-cpu variables | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 00:16:50 -0500
> It would be interesting to see benchmarks of how much it improves > things. I guess it doesn't really get interesting until after the paca > gets removed though, due to the added mfsprg's.
When I moved the per-cpu base into a fixed register on sparc64, it definitely showed up on the micro-benchmarks because this shrunk the .text a lot in that case. - 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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