Re: [PATCH] Turn rdmsr, rdtsc into inline functions, clarify names

[Andi Kleen]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:47:41PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> [Andi, sorry, x86_64 part untested, so sending straight to you]
> 
> rdmsr and rdtsc are macros, altering their arguments directly.  An
> inline function would offer decent typechecking, but needs to take
> pointer args.  The comment notes that gcc produces better code with

I think I prefer the macro variant actually. Sorry. It just looks
better without the &s.

We don't care very much about the code quality here because
rdmsr/wrmsr are always very slow in microcode anyways and tend
to synchronize the CPUs.

If you feel a need to clean up I would suggest you convert more
users over to the ll variants which take a single 64bit value
instead of two 32bit ones.

-Andi
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