Re: [PATCH 2/3] skip_prolgoue (amd64)

Tom Tromey
2013-12-04T15:38:33Z

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> Actually "non-stop", vs "all-stop" here isn't the ideal
Pedro> predicate. The real predicate is "is any thread running".
Pedro> "non-stop" is just being currently used in
Pedro> prepare_execute_command as proxy for that, just because
Pedro> that was the easiest.

It seemed to me that the predicate must be "is any thread associated
with this particular address space running?" -- but I wanted to ask if
that makes sense, or if that was what you meant. This idea seems to
open the door to finer-grained cache flushing.

Tom