[PATCH] ia64: performance-tweak syscall exit path some more
Please find the attached patch that: 1. Moves user stack flag memory access before srlz.i; 2. Moves mov b6=r22 as late as possible. 3. Changes (pSys) to (pLvSys) in skip_rbs_switch: section. IA32 syscall set pSys=1 but pLvSys=0. It's not necessary to clear bank1 r16-r19 registers for IA32 syscall. The number for leave_syscall is 268 cycles with this patch. The number is 295 cycles w/o this patch. It was 245 cycles with the original kee patched kernel. The 23 cycles come from restoring b6 operation which didn't exist in the orignal kee patch.
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