On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 08:50:30PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > currently we have a large number of TLB refill handlers written in > > hand-optimized assembly which are mostly indentical. The appended > > patch removes them all, and adds a micro-assembler instead which > > synthesizes the proper variant for the CPU at runtime. > > Woow..... This has been the plan for quite a while already. Nowhere else than in the TLB exception handler more details about exception handling, pipeline structure, SMP etc. become visible and benchmarkable in that few instructions. Copy_page / clear_page have basically been a test how well it'd work out - it did. So from that point it was just a question of who was going to bite the bullet and do the work and Thiemo did. Thanks! Ralf
