From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com>,
dhowells@redhat.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [andrea@suse.de: Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:20:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010425152029.C18214@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24526.987755027@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104201037580.5523-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104201037580.5523-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:46:01AM -0700
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> For i386 and i486, there is no reason to try to maintain a complex fast
> case. The machines are unquestionably going away - we should strive to not
> burden them unnecessarily, but we should _not_ try to save two cycles.
...
> Icache is also precious on the 386, which has no L2 in 99% of all cases.
> Make it out-of-line.
AFAIK, only some 386 clones have a cache -- the Intel ones do not.
Therefore saving icache is not an issue, and the cycle cost of an out of
line call is somewhat more than two cycles.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-25 13:21 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104192315480.4357-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-04-20 8:23 ` [andrea@suse.de: Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]] David Howells
2001-04-20 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-25 13:20 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2001-04-20 18:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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