(Adding Mark to cc's)
On 01/12/2016 05:07 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 04:15:50PM -0500, Chris Metcalf wrote:
Ping! There has been no substantive feedback to this version of
the patch in the week since I posted it, which optimistically suggests
to me that people may be satisfied with it. If that's true, Frederic,
I assume this would be pulled into your tree?
I have slightly updated the v9 patch series since this posting:
[...]
- Incorporated Mark Rutland's changes to convert arm64
assembly to C code instead of using my own version.
Please avoid queuing these patches -- the first is already in the arm64
queue for 4.5 and the second was found to introduce a substantial
performance regression on the syscall entry/exit path. I think Mark had
an updated version to address that, so it would be easier not to have
an old version sitting in some other queue!
I am not formally queueing them anywhere (like linux-next), though
now that you mention it, that's a pretty good idea - I'll talk to Steven
about that, assuming this merge window closes without the task
isolation stuff going in.
In the arch/tile code, we load the thread_info_flags and test them
against a bitmask before we call into C code, to avoid the various
overheads involved in the C path. Perhaps that same strategy is all
that's needed for the arm64 code? Hopefully you can get that
code merged up during the 4.5 window so I can use it as the new
baseline for the task isolation stuff.
Thanks!
--
Chris Metcalf, EZChip Semiconductor
http://www.ezchip.com
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