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Date:      Sat, 5 Apr 2003 20:52:31 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Cc:        peter@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: context switching pessimizations
Message-ID:  <20030405204940.L800@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030405194620.I645@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20030405194620.I645@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Bruce Evans wrote:

> Recent optimizations of context switching are large pessimizations
> according to lmbench2, at least in the default case (no LAZY_SWITCH).

The ifdefs are just so convoluted that they are broken in the
!LAZY_SWITCH case.

%%%
Index: swtch.s
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/i386/swtch.s,v
retrieving revision 1.136
diff -u -2 -r1.136 swtch.s
--- swtch.s	2 Apr 2003 23:53:28 -0000	1.136
+++ swtch.s	5 Apr 2003 10:40:20 -0000
@@ -175,4 +175,5 @@
 #endif
 1:
+#endif
 	movl	%cr3,%ebx			/* The same address space? */
 	cmpl	%ebx,%eax
@@ -182,6 +183,4 @@
 	je	sw1
 #endif
-#endif
-
 #ifdef SWTCH_OPTIM_STATS
 	incl	tlb_flush_count
%%%

Bruce



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