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From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ftrace: to kill a daemon
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I wish we had a true 5 byte nop. The alternative is a jmp 0, which is
> measurable.

Did you try short jumps? (0xeb 0x03 0x?? 0x?? 0x??)

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