Re: [patch] entry.S asm improvement (removed some ugly jmp)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:24:43 -0500

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981128030729.3684A-100000@dragon.bogus>, Andrea
Arcan
geli writes:
+-----
| But switch_to()/__switch_to() (include/asm-i386/system.h) uses an impair
| number of call/ret. Why? Am I missing something (maybe because it' s too
| late ;).
+--->8

Ummm, a context switch is likely to do a heck of a lot more violence to the
processor state than merely mismatching calls and rets. :-)

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