On Fri, 2015-25-09 at 04:01:40 UTC, Michael Neuling wrote: > powerpc has a link register (lr) used for calling functions. We "bl > <func>" to call a function, and "blr" to return back to the call site.
<snip, geez that was long> > For the benchmark in tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/gettimeofday.c > POWER8: > 64bit gets ~4% improvement > 32bit gets ~9% improvement > POWER7: > 64bit gets ~7% improvement > > Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mi...@neuling.org> > Reported-by: Aaron Sawdey <saw...@us.ibm.com> Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/c974809a26a13e40254dbe3c cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
