On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 06:47:19PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:28:01AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 06:20:11PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Also cc Honza in case he has comments (you might want > > > to review more of the thread in the archives) > > > > I think this particular bug is already known and discussed: > > I thought so initially too, but: > > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-12/msg00365.html > > > > and it hints at being fixed with gcc 4.4. Does anyone want to test > > that? > > Hugh already tested with 4.4 and it didn't work well. At least > a lot of the low level asm inlines were not inlined. > So it looks like it's still mistuned for the kernel. That seems like valuable feedback to give to the GCC developers. Richi, you can find the whole thread at http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=123150610901773&w=2 and http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=123150834405285&w=2 is also relevant. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
