Re: [PATCH 0/9] x86-64 put current in r10

From: Nick Piggin (nickpiggin_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 11/30/05

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    Date:	Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:20:00 +1100
    To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
    
    

    Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:39 +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
    >
    >>Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
    >>
    >>>The following emails contain the patches to convert x86-64 to store current
    >>>in r10 (also at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/patches/v2.6.15-rc3/).
    >>
    >>[snip]
    >>
    >>>No benchmarks that I am aware of show regressions with this change.
    >>
    >>Ben,
    >>Your patch breaks all out-of-tree amd64 assembler code used in kernel.
    >
    >
    > so what?
    >

    Sounds like a trick question - I don't think the kernel does use any
    out-of-tree amd64 assember code, does it? ;)

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