Re: thread_info implementation

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:42:22 -0800 (PST)

From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:32:58 -0800

DaveM> The compiler will schedule the latency out of existence.

The kernel has many paths that have sequential dependencies. If there
is no other work to do, the compiler won't help you.

You mean the company with the most register starved modern processor
can't make a load go fast? :-) I totally beg to differ, and I think
people like Linus will too.
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