Re: [PATCH -mm] i386 syscall opcode reordering (pipelining)

From: Andreas Mohr
Date: Wed Jun 14 2006 - 15:27:19 EST


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
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