On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 05:45:45PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:Ok, following this discussion I made some additional measurement and it looks like:
If this makes performance non-negligibly worse on other 32-bit chips, and isAnd I'd like to see a benchmark that shows it *does not* hurt performance
an important improvement on 8xx, then we can use an ifdef since 8xx already
requires its own kernel build. I'd prefer to see a benchmark showing that it
actually does make things worse on those chips, though.
on most chips, and does improve things on 8xx, and by how much. But it
isn't *me* who has to show that, it is not my patch.