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On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:26:53 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> >
> > From: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
> >
> > Use thread info flags to track use of debug registers and IO bitmaps.
> >
> > - add TIF_DEBUG to track when debug registers are active
> > - add TIF_IO_BITMAP to track when I/O bitmap is used
> > - modify __switch_to() to use the new TIF flags
>
> Can you explain what the advantages of this are?
Stephane's perfmon2 patch adds yet another special-case to the
switch_to() code, so Andi suggested this change. It will allow
the perfmon2 patch to have no performance impact on normal
task-switching, since it will just use another flag.
After I saw a ~7% gain in task-switch performance, I like it now
even without perfmon2 in there.
> I don't see it. It's just creating new state to describe state that we
> already had, and as far as I can tell, it's just a way to potentially have
> more new bugs thanks to the new state getting out of sync with the old
> one?
Well yeah, there is that. But Andi and I both reviewed it and he's
already put the x86_64 version into his tree. Testing in -mm should
show whether there are any problems.
--
Chuck
"You can't read a newspaper if you can't read." --George W. Bush
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