Re: [RFC 3/4] Restartable sequences: Wire up powerpc system call

2016-07-27 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
- On Jul 27, 2016, at 11:05 AM, Boqun Feng boqun.f...@gmail.com wrote: > Wire up the rseq system call on powerpc. > > This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu > operation on powerpc by skipping the getcpu system call on the fast > path, as well as improving the speed of

[RFC 3/4] Restartable sequences: Wire up powerpc system call

2016-07-27 Thread Boqun Feng
Wire up the rseq system call on powerpc. This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu operation on powerpc by skipping the getcpu system call on the fast path, as well as improving the speed of user-space operations on per-cpu data compared to using load-reservation/store-condit