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

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sat, 28 Nov 1998 15:01:01 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>When you actually end up doing a context switch, the return predictor is
>hosed anyway - there's no way it can know what is going on, as the stack

I guess that also when we return in user mode (return_all) we lose the
return predictor...

>entry for the return path, which is good. The point being that it is not
>at all obvious which code is actually the faster one.

Thanks.

Andrea Arcangeli

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