Return-path: Received: from mail-ig0-f173.google.com ([209.85.213.173]:32772 "EHLO mail-ig0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751423AbcADLSb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2016 06:18:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <568A4403.8020701@gmail.com> References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net> <5686F0B2.5000000@users.sourceforge.net> <56870866.7020000@cogentembedded.com> <568785B3.5000905@users.sourceforge.net> <5687939E.7010701@users.sourceforge.net> <5687A2C7.3000704@gmail.com> <5687B2BC.8090901@users.sourceforge.net> <5688EBAC.5000701@gmail.com> <568A4403.8020701@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 12:18:30 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20160104_121852_105378_32385F44) Subject: Re: net-libertas: Better exception handling in if_spi_host_to_card_worker() From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: Arend van Spriel Cc: SF Markus Elfring , Julia Lawall , Sergei Shtylyov , libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Network Development , Kalle Valo , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 4 January 2016 at 11:05, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 03-01-16 16:18, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> On 3 January 2016 at 10:36, Arend van Spriel wrote: >>> On 02-01-16 12:21, SF Markus Elfring wrote: >>>>> Did you look at the resulting assembly code for different target architectures? >>>> >>>> Not yet. - Which execution system variants would you recommend for >>>> further comparisons? >>> >>> Guess x86{,_64} and arm would be good candidates, ie. CISC vs. RISC. >> >> Oh, don't forget about MIPS with its fancy branches handling. You know >> about it, don't you? > > You are asking me, right ;-) ? I have come across my share of MIPS > platforms here at Broadcom, but I still try to avoid them as much as > possible. I was more thinking about author on this patch. But it's indeed an interesting thing, just to know, how MIPS CPU handles branches ;) -- Rafał