* Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Brian Gerst <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Move the low-level context switch code to an out-of-line asm stub instead
> > of
> > using complex inline asm. This allows constructing a new stack frame for
> > the
> > child process to make it seamlessly flow to ret_from_fork without an extra
> > test and branch in __switch_to(). It also improves code generation for
> > __schedule() by using the C calling convention instead of clobbering all
> > registers.
>
> Just a heads up: I'm writing some code that conflicts with this patch. The
> conflict will be easy to resolve, and, if this patch beats mine to -tip, I'll
> rebase.
So I was expecting another iteration of this switch_to() series, but had no
fundamental objections to the concept.
Thanks,
Ingo
