From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:33:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:33:16 -0500 Received: from deimos.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:5569 "EHLO deimos.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:33:01 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15464.36074.246502.582895@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:32:58 -0800 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: thread_info implementation In-Reply-To: <20020211.192334.123921982.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <15464.34183.282646.869983@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020211.190449.55725714.davem@redhat.com> <15464.35214.669412.477377@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020211.192334.123921982.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under Emacs 21.1.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:23:34 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" said: DaveM> The compiler will schedule the latency out of existence. The kernel has many paths that have sequential dependencies. If there is no other work to do, the compiler won't help you. --david