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To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ftrace: to kill a daemon
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:

> I'm stubborn, I want to get it right _and_ keep it fast.

For me it would seem better to just not use two part 5 byte nops
instead of adding such hacks.  I doubt there are that many of them
anyways. I bet you won't be able to measure any difference between the
different nop types in any macro benchmark.

-Andi
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