Re: Immediate values

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Sep 24 2009 - 08:34:57 EST



* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> Andi asked me this week when we should expect to see the "immediate
> values" make it into mainline. I remember you pulled them at one
> point. He would like to use them to encode some very hot-path
> variables into the instruction stream.
>
> How should I proceed to get that upstream ? Would a repost be
> appropriate ?

Would have to see it in full context i guess, with before/after
measurements, etc.

Ingo
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