[PATCH 1/2] add ARM FCSE support

[Gennady Kupava]

В Втр, 15/02/2011 в 04:44 +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix пишет:
> Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 September 2010 13:52:21 Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> >> Gennady Kupava wrote:
> >>> В Сбт, 18/09/2010 в 22:53 +0300, Vasily Khoruzhick пишет:
> >>>> So, what about FCSE patches for 2.6.36?
> >>> And for 2.6.34.
> >> I did not work on this. Do not worry, I will notify you when it is done.
> > 
> > Ping?
> > 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> the patch series for FCSE with Linux 2.6.37 is available in the
> following git repository:
> git://git.xenomai.org/ipipe-gch.git
> in a branch named fcse-2.6.37
> Also available through gitweb here:
> http://git.xenomai.org/?p=ipipe-gch.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fcse-2.6.37
> 
> This is a forward port of the 2.6.33 v4 patch, a few things have
> changed, a few cleanups here and there, while splitting the patch in
> several parts. The most notable change is that we no longer restart
> cache flushes when they were preempted, it was, in fact, useless.
> 
> Also, I noticed that the hackbench test is not the only one in LTP
> testsuite to benefit from the speed improvement brought by this patch,
> the whole LTP testsuite takes actually 15% less time to execute with the
> FCSE patch on.
> 
> I think the patch series can be submitted to mainline, at least as a
> request for comments. If you end up submitting them after 2.6.38 is out,
> then please tell me, and I will rebase on 2.6.38. The most tedious part
> of the job was to split the patch in several parts, now that it is done,
> we can rebase easily.

Hi, Gilles,

My plan with your patches is to test it here with lmbench, but I have
some troubles with .37 at this moment, so i need to go other round to
resolve .37 problems first. I'll post lmbench result then it'll be
ready.

Gennady.