On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:26:56 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ar Gwe, 2006-06-30 am 18:13 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andreas Mohr: > > Use an independently-formatted "unsigned int" for data instead of a > > restrictive "u16" to avoid instruction fetch pipeline stalls > > probably caused by the byte calculations later. > > drivers/ide is on its way out. Like sound/oss ;) > I'm also curious that this shows up given > that the inw() is going to cause a PCI sequence and stall the CPU > entirely for ages anyway. I guess because he was profiling for IFU_MEM_STALL, not for wall-time. > NAK because > 1. This is a gcc problem > 2. Not everyone is using an intel x86-32 box which has such problems > 3. IDE is in life-support mode and the relatives are already planning > the flowers. Well. If the patch breaks anything we can dine on hats for a month. Seems pretty inoffensive to me. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
