Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:55:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:55:34 -0500 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([213.152.47.19]:41618 "EHLO noodles.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:55:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:00:09 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Andrew Morton Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Bill Davidsen , Aaron Lehmann , Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.47{-mm1} with contest Message-ID: <20021121140009.GH9883@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , Bill Davidsen , Aaron Lehmann , Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list References: <3DD0E037.1FC50147@digeo.com> <3DDC1480.402A0E5B@digeo.com> <20021121000811.GQ23425@holomorphy.com> <3DDC8330.FE066815@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DDC8330.FE066815@digeo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 19 > > OK, got it back to 119000. Each signal was calling copy_*_user 24 times. > > This gets it down to six. > Also maybe we can do something about that multiple memcpy in copy_fpu_fxsave() > In fact, that looks a bit fishy. We copy 10 bytes each memcpy, but > advance the to ptr 5 bytes each iteration. What gives here ? Doh, of course.. it's copying shorts. Still looks icky though IMO. Dave -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/