Re: [PATCH 0/9] x86-64 put current in r10

[Nick Piggin]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:39 +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
>
> > Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> >
> > > The following emails contain the patches to convert x86-64 to store current
> > > in r10 (also at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/patches/v2.6.15-rc3/).
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > No benchmarks that I am aware of show regressions with this change.
> >
> > Ben,
> > Your patch breaks all out-of-tree amd64 assembler code used in kernel. 
>
>
> so what?

Sounds like a trick question - I don't think the kernel does use any
out-of-tree amd64 assember code, does it? ;)

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