From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386-pda UP optimization
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:20:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061115172003.GA20403@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611151232.31937.ak@suse.de>
* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 12:27, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Seeing %gs prefixes used now by i386 port, I recalled seeing strange
> > oprofile results on Opteron machines.
> >
> > I really think %gs prefixes can be expensive in some (most ?) cases,
> > even if the Intel/AMD docs say they are free.
>
> They aren't free, just very cheap.
Eric's test shows a 5% slowdown. That's far from cheap.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-15 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-12 7:35 i386 PDA patches use of %gs Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-12 7:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-12 7:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-12 8:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 11:27 ` [PATCH] i386-pda UP optimization Eric Dumazet
2006-11-15 11:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-15 17:20 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-11-15 17:24 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-15 17:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-15 17:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 17:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-15 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-21 11:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-21 21:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-21 21:52 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-21 22:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-21 21:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-21 23:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 17:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 17:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 17:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-15 18:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-15 18:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 19:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-17 0:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 17:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-28 23:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-29 9:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-29 9:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-13 1:00 ` i386 PDA patches use of %gs Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-13 9:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-13 16:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 18:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 18:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-15 19:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-15 19:03 ` Ingo Molnar
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