On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:58 PM, David Miller<[email protected]> wrote: > From: Matt Turner <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:55:42 -0400 > >> Please review the attached patch. Thanks for the input. > > What are those branches for? (this is retorical, I > know the reason, it's a chip bug workaround)
>From memory: a branch misprediction before an membar could cause bad things. I'd assume that you wrote both the code and relevant comments in arch/sparc/include/asm/system_64.h. :) > If there is a reason to add them, you need to document > that reason in either the commit message or comments > in the code. Sure, good point. Matt _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
