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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: branchless clear_page()
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 23:06:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160822210606.GA10044@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160822205229.GA2638@p183.telecom.by>

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:52:29PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Apply alternatives at the call site instead of function body.
> Save branch per clean page.

Any size increase to an allyesconfig vmlinux and increase to
alternatives application time?

Booting with "debug-alternative" should help.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-22 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-22 20:52 [PATCH] x86: branchless clear_page() Alexey Dobriyan
2016-08-22 20:54 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-08-22 21:06 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-08-23 10:46   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-08-23 13:43 ` Brian Gerst
2016-08-23 16:15   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2016-08-23 16:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Alexey Dobriyan
2016-08-23 16:25   ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: support REP MOVSB copy_page() Alexey Dobriyan
2016-08-23 16:28     ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: branchless copy_page() Alexey Dobriyan

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