Re: [PATCH] x86-64: make pda's cpunumber and nodenumber unsigned

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This generally allows better code to be generated, since the zero- 
> extension during 32-bit operations comes for free (needed when the 
> result is used as array index or similar), whereas sign extension must 
> be done explicitly and frequently requires a one byte larger 
> instruction due to the necessary rex64 prefix.

good catch! Applied your patch to x86.git - queued it up for v2.6.25. I 
bet there are tons of other instances where we use signed instead of 
unsigned and get worse code generation.

	Ingo
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