From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.4 alpha semaphores optimization
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 13:54:01 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010504135401.A2346@jurassic.park.msu.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010503194747.A552@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <14842.988968173@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <14842.988968173@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>; from dhowells@redhat.com on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:22:53AM +0100
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Hello Ivan,
Hello David!
> I don't know whether it will (a) compile, or (b) work... I don't have an alpha
> to play with.
It looks ok at a first glance, I can try it today.
> I also don't know the alpha function calling convention, so I can't put direct
> calls to the fallback routines in lib/rwsem.c from the ".subsection 2"
> bits. Can you do that, or can you tell me how the calling convention works?
Calling C routines from inline asm is quite painful on alpha. Lots of
registers will be clobbered, so you need some wrapper functions preserving
them. It was done in 2.2 this way, but that code was hardly maintainable...
Ivan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-04 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-03 15:47 Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-03 17:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-04 9:15 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-04 14:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-04 17:02 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-04 17:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-04 9:22 ` David Howells
2001-05-04 9:54 ` Ivan Kokshaysky [this message]
2001-05-04 16:46 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-04 21:12 ` Richard Henderson
2001-05-05 13:55 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-06 6:55 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-04 21:13 ` Richard Henderson
2001-05-05 14:17 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-05 17:06 ` __builtin_expect vs inlining Richard Henderson
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