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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	eranian@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 add Intel PEBS and BTS cpufeature bits and detection
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:52:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061123085254.GA29738@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6428.1164261827@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

> LBR is mainly useful on wild branches to random addresses.  As such,

The page fault handler is one of the most performance critical 
exceptions.  And then on x86-64 a lot of stray pointers actually result in a 
#GP, not a page fault.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-23  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-15 21:32 Stephane Eranian
2006-11-15 21:34 ` [PATCH] x86-64 " Stephane Eranian
2006-11-16  0:18 ` [PATCH] i386 " Andrew Morton
2006-11-16 14:20 ` [PATCH] x86-64 add Intel BTS cpufeature bit and detection (take 2) Stephane Eranian
2006-11-16 14:22   ` [PATCH] i386 " Stephane Eranian
2006-11-16 14:23   ` [PATCH] x86-64 " Andi Kleen
2006-11-17  1:34 ` [PATCH] i386 add Intel PEBS and BTS cpufeature bits and detection Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-17  4:29   ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-17  7:57     ` Stephane Eranian
2006-11-17  9:22       ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-17 12:29         ` Stephane Eranian
2006-11-17 22:57     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-18  8:24       ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-23  6:03         ` Keith Owens
2006-11-23  8:52           ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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