Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161963AbWKVIul (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:50:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031238AbWKVIul (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:50:41 -0500 Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.21]:57897 "EHLO orsmga101.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031152AbWKVIuk (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:50:40 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,447,1157353200"; d="scan'208"; a="165328095:sNHT274748642" Message-ID: <45640F56.5040509@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:50:30 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Avi Kivity CC: Andrew Morton , Venkatesh Pallipadi , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add do_not_call_when_idle option to timer and workqueue References: <20061121162845.A24791@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20061121181114.b9d923bd.akpm@osdl.org> <4563F05C.4090809@argo.co.il> In-Reply-To: <4563F05C.4090809@argo.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 509 Lines: 13 Avi Kivity wrote: > The lsb of a function pointer is used in variable length instruction > processors (such as x86 when optimizing for size). The msb is constant > though. > x86 aligns the start of functions to 4 bytes even when optimizing for size though... - 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/