On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote: > > * 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.
I'll have it ready soon. I've just been busy with other things lately. -- Brian Gerst
