From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755985Ab2IQRNp (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:13:45 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:52985 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755093Ab2IQRNn (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:13:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <50575855.8040308@zytor.com> References: <504DEA1B020000780009A277@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <5056F04B020000780009BAF9@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20120917100046.GA32463@gmail.com> <50575855.8040308@zytor.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:13:21 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xFEac_KzOhyn4N9su1z-CzyafsI Message-ID: Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Jan Beulich , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Honestly, I don't see a reason to not do this unconditionally. Possibly. "unconditional" is certainly a lot saner than "conditionally on totally insane things". Linus