Re: Prefetch kernel stacks to speed up context switch

From: Coywolf Qi Hunt
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 03:53:26 EST


On 9/7/05, Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Repost previously discussed patch (on Jul 27, 2005). Ingo did
> the same thing for all arch with 471 lines of patch. I'm still
> advocating this little 30 lines patch, of 6 lines introduces
> prefetch_stack() generic interface.
>
> Andrew, please consider -mm inclusion. Or advise me what I need
> to do to take this forward. Thanks.
>
> - Ken

Do you have any benchmarks?
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