Re: Slight optimizations to entry.S patch

From: Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 17:47:27 EST


On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Alex wrote:

> Hi,
> I was familiarizing (or trying to) myself with the i386 architecture code,
> and saw a few possible optimizations. I think they can save a few cycles (not
> that many). Can someone comment? Are the changes worthwhile?

The first page of your x86 book starts talking about read-after-write
pipeline stall ? Damn what a book :)

- Davide

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