linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: ret_from_fork

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Date:	Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:33:36 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, heukelum@...tmail.fm
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: ret_from_fork - get rid of jump back

[gorcunov@...il.com - Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:17:01PM +0300]
| From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
| 
| Impact: cleanup, microoptimization
| 
| Use straightforward jumping if possible, cpu like it.

Wrong word, not _straight_ forward but forward branch target
in this case.

| 
| Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
| ---
|  arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S |   10 ++++------
|  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
| 
		- Cyrill -
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