Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756779AbYAXUDo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:03:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753995AbYAXUDg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:03:36 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:43406 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752021AbYAXUDg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:03:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:37:24 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: David Newall Cc: Adrian Bunk , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support Message-ID: <20080124203724.GA14852@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20080120055544.GB19861@one.firstfloor.org> <4792E8E2.1090307@davidnewall.com> <20080120072922.GA21047@one.firstfloor.org> <4793F775.6090403@davidnewall.com> <20080122111205.GA25090@elte.hu> <4796081A.7060505@davidnewall.com> <20080122160114.GB23277@does.not.exist> <4798C511.8070305@davidnewall.com> <20080124172414.GD4476@does.not.exist> <4798D10C.6090109@davidnewall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4798D10C.6090109@davidnewall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 400 Lines: 12 > The performance benefit is trivial, That's actually not true when you're talking about potential cache misses. Cache misses are very expensive. -Andi -- 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/