* Alexander van Heukelum wrote: > > My estimation is that if we do it right, your approach will behave > > better on modern CPUs (which is what matters most for such > > things), especially on real workloads where there's a considerable > > instruction-cache pressure. But it should be measured in any case. > > Fully agreed. I will do some measurements in the near future, maybe > next week. At least noone came up with an absolutely blocking > problem with this approach ;). how about "it does not build with lguest enabled" as a blocking problem? ;-) arch/x86/lguest/built-in.o: In function `lguest_init_IRQ': boot.c:(.init.text+0x33f): undefined reference to `interrupt' config attached. Ingo