On Fri, 3 May 2019 09:44:35 -0700 Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org wrote:
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:35 AM Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org wrote:
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:31:26PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
I guess the real question is, what's the performance impact of doing that?
Is there anyone that considers i386 a performance platform?
Not me. As far as I'm concerned, I will basically always gladly trade several cycles for simplicity on 32-bit.
So should I wait for a new PATCH 1 from Peter to implement it this way? I'd like to get this into the next merge window (although, I am marking it for stable since it fixes a bug for live kernel patching).
Linus, what's your thoughts?
-- Steve