From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alternative patching for prefetches & cleanup
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 05:14:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030427051451.43064@colin.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304262005460.25292-100000@home.transmeta.com>; from Linus Torvalds on Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 05:09:45AM +0200
> > +++ linux-gencpu/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2003-04-27 04:12:32.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -795,41 +795,42 @@
> > pci_mem_start = low_mem_size;
> > }
> >
> > +asm("nops: "
> > + ASM_NOP1 ASM_NOP2 ASM_NOP3 ASM_NOP4 ASM_NOP5 ASM_NOP6
> > + ASM_NOP7 ASM_NOP8);
> > +
>
> This in particular is just too ugly for words. Why can't you just have a
Hmm. I thought using the Fibonaci sequence for this was clever :-)
But ok I'll change it to the array.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-27 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-27 2:19 [PATCH] Alternative patching for prefetches & cleanup Andi Kleen
2003-04-27 3:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-27 3:14 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-04-27 3:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-27 3:27 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-27 3:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-27 8:50 ` Rene Herman
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