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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-02-13 13:26:20 +0100
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-02-13 13:26:20 +0100
commit464d1a78fbf8cf6c7fd970e7b3e2db50a320ce28 (patch)
tree536d8a92976e675b484b35dec88d40c97fab8ac8 /include/asm-i386/pda.h
parent[PATCH] x86-64: x86_64-make-the-numa-hash-function-nodemap-allocation fix fix (diff)
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[PATCH] i386: Convert i386 PDA code to use %fs
Convert the PDA code to use %fs rather than %gs as the segment for per-processor data. This is because some processors show a small but measurable performance gain for reloading a NULL segment selector (as %fs generally is in user-space) versus a non-NULL one (as %gs generally is). On modern processors the difference is very small, perhaps undetectable. Some old AMD "K6 3D+" processors are noticably slower when %fs is used rather than %gs; I have no idea why this might be, but I think they're sufficiently rare that it doesn't matter much. This patch also fixes the math emulator, which had not been adjusted to match the changed struct pt_regs. [frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com: fixit with gdb] [mingo@elte.hu: Fix KVM too] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386/pda.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-i386/pda.h12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/pda.h b/include/asm-i386/pda.h
index 2ba2736aa109..b12d59a318b7 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/pda.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/pda.h
@@ -39,19 +39,19 @@ extern struct i386_pda _proxy_pda;
if (0) { T__ tmp__; tmp__ = (val); } \
switch (sizeof(_proxy_pda.field)) { \
case 1: \
- asm(op "b %1,%%gs:%c2" \
+ asm(op "b %1,%%fs:%c2" \
: "+m" (_proxy_pda.field) \
:"ri" ((T__)val), \
"i"(pda_offset(field))); \
break; \
case 2: \
- asm(op "w %1,%%gs:%c2" \
+ asm(op "w %1,%%fs:%c2" \
: "+m" (_proxy_pda.field) \
:"ri" ((T__)val), \
"i"(pda_offset(field))); \
break; \
case 4: \
- asm(op "l %1,%%gs:%c2" \
+ asm(op "l %1,%%fs:%c2" \
: "+m" (_proxy_pda.field) \
:"ri" ((T__)val), \
"i"(pda_offset(field))); \
@@ -65,19 +65,19 @@ extern struct i386_pda _proxy_pda;
typeof(_proxy_pda.field) ret__; \
switch (sizeof(_proxy_pda.field)) { \
case 1: \
- asm(op "b %%gs:%c1,%0" \
+ asm(op "b %%fs:%c1,%0" \
: "=r" (ret__) \
: "i" (pda_offset(field)), \
"m" (_proxy_pda.field)); \
break; \
case 2: \
- asm(op "w %%gs:%c1,%0" \
+ asm(op "w %%fs:%c1,%0" \
: "=r" (ret__) \
: "i" (pda_offset(field)), \
"m" (_proxy_pda.field)); \
break; \
case 4: \
- asm(op "l %%gs:%c1,%0" \
+ asm(op "l %%fs:%c1,%0" \
: "=r" (ret__) \
: "i" (pda_offset(field)), \
"m" (_proxy_pda.field)); \