[PATCH v2 13/25] powerpc/8xx: also use r3 in the ITLB miss in all situations

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Sep 29 10:00:39 AEST 2015


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:50:54PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> We are spending between 40 and 160 cycles with a mean of 65 cycles
> in the TLB handling routines (measured with mftbl) so make it more
> simple althought it adds one instruction
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
> ---
> No change in v2
> 
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 15 ++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Why is this a separate patch from 1/25?

Same comments as on that patch.

-Scott


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