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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC 4/5] x86: avoid unlikely taken forward branc

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC 4/5] x86: avoid unlikely taken forward branches
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:24:40 +0000
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>>> On 22.12.10 at 13:17, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... since these get statically mis-predicted by most CPUs and increase
> the cache footprint. This mostly concerns hypercall tracing and vm86
> mode handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

Oops, I'm sorry - I just noticed that I already had submitted this one.

Jan


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