On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 17:47 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > 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
I'd argue this is a bug fix and should hit stable too.. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
