Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On the assumption that it is important to include the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME bit > one might be tempted to modify the code to: > > lda $2, _TIF_WORK_MASK > and $5, $2, $2 > > but this is time critical code. I am wondering whether it might be better > to rearrange the bits in the thread information flags so that _TIF_WORK_MASK > has a value less than 255 and the single instruction to perform an and > operation can be maintained. Unless the LDA can be interleaved around some memory accesses, then yes, compressing _TIF_WORK_MASK would be good. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
