On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 20:19 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > next time please reply to the points raised in a review if you disagree
> > with them, and don't just ignore them. That speeds up the review.
>
> It was all in the previous email on the topic.
This v2 patch did not incorporate all the chan
> next time please reply to the points raised in a review if you disagree
> with them, and don't just ignore them. That speeds up the review.
It was all in the previous email on the topic.
> > // See gtm_thread::begin_transaction.
> > -uint32_t GTM::htm_fastpath = 0;
> > +uint32_t GTM::htm_fast
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 19:30 -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen
>
> The libitm TSX hardware transaction fast path currently does quite a bit of
> unnecessary work (saving registers etc.) before even trying to start
> a hardware transaction. This patch moves the initial attempt at a
> tran
> Probably the attached (RFC) patch can be useful in this case. The
> patch allows to specify the label for xbegin, so it is possible to
> implement code like following (non-sensical) example:
It can be actually implemented using asm goto. I have some macros
for this. And the tree optimizers shou
Hello!
> The libitm TSX hardware transaction fast path currently does quite a bit of
> unnecessary work (saving registers etc.) before even trying to start
> a hardware transaction. This patch moves the initial attempt at a
> transaction early into the assembler stub. Complicated work like retries
