Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752334AbZIXMbx (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:31:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751828AbZIXMbw (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:31:52 -0400 Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.4]:51073 "EHLO tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751720AbZIXMbw (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:31:52 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqIEABcEu0pMROOX/2dsb2JhbACBUtR+hBsFgVg Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:31:54 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Immediate values Message-ID: <20090924123154.GA12907@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.27.31-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 08:28:38 up 36 days, 23:18, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.18, 0.17 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 24 Hi Ingo, Andi asked me this week when we should expect to see the "immediate values" make it into mainline. I remember you pulled them at one point. He would like to use them to encode some very hot-path variables into the instruction stream. How should I proceed to get that upstream ? Would a repost be appropriate ? I have support for powerpc, x86 ans sparc64 currently. Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- 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/