Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc2

[Andi Kleen]

Willy Tarreau <willy@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Marcelo,
>
> just another one and that's all. Zachary Amsden found an unconditional
> write to a debug register in the signal delivery path which is only
> needed when we use a breakpoint. This is a very expensive operation on
> x86, and doing it conditionnaly enhanced signal delivery speed by 33%
> for him.
>
> His patch got merged in 2.6.10, and I've merged it a month ago in my
> local tree. Could we get it in 2.4.30, please ?

I dont think it belongs in 2.4.x. It is not a critical bug fix.

-Andi
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