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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc patch] i386: don't save eflags on task switch
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:34:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162748079.3160.102.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611050920220.25218@g5.osdl.org>


> Andi, one single bug is usually worth _months_ of peoples time and effort. 
> How many CPU cycles is that? 

actually lockdep is pretty good at finding this type of bug IMMEDIATELY
even without the actual race triggering ;)

(but I otherwise agree that unless there is a
"sti-conditional-on-zero-flag" or something.... it's probably a void
optimization in the general uninlined case)

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-05 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-04  6:56 Chuck Ebbert
2006-11-04 19:09 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-11-04 19:35   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05  3:55   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-11-05  4:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05  5:41       ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-05  8:01         ` Zachary Amsden
2006-11-05 17:01           ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-05 17:26             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05 17:34               ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-11-05 17:51                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05 22:48                   ` Zachary Amsden
2006-11-05 18:52               ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-05 16:12         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05 16:54           ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-05 17:20             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05  4:17     ` Zachary Amsden
2006-11-05 20:10       ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-04  0:00 Chuck Ebbert
2006-11-04  0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-04  1:36   ` Andi Kleen

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