From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750984AbWFNT2f (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:28:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751012AbWFNT2f (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:28:35 -0400 Received: from rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de ([129.143.116.10]:30890 "EHLO rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750984AbWFNT2e (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:28:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:28:33 +0200 From: Andreas Mohr To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andrew Morton , kernel list Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] i386 syscall opcode reordering (pipelining) Message-ID: <20060614192833.GA19938@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> References: <20060613195446.GD24167@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> <448F1B97.3070207@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <448F1B97.3070207@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Priority: none Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:09:59PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Andreas Mohr wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I'd guess that this version features improved pipeline parallelism, > >since we isolate competing %ebx accesses (_syscall4()) and > >stack push operations (_syscall5()), right? > > is anybody actually EVER using those??? > I would think not.... In that case... consider the patch dumped ;) Andreas Mohr