>>>>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:03:08 -0800, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> said: Tony> This is using the tool chain on SLES9. I ran the preprocessor Tony> over entry.S, and it does include the ".align 32" ... so the Tony> change should have had no effect. Which means that something Tony> else I did today probably dropped the cycles :-( I believe the exact data-cache layout can affect the basic syscall-path quite significantly. Thus, I can certainly see why apparently unrelated changes could affect the syscall path. Getting better control over the data-layout would be nice (Ken's GP-relative addressing work may a helpful step in that direction). --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Jan 25 17:26:01 2005
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