From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10515 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2013 15:38:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10501 invoked by uid 89); 4 Dec 2013 15:38:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from Unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:38:31 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rB4FcMxu004562 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 4 Dec 2013 10:38:23 -0500 Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-124.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.124]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rB4FcK4F027242 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Dec 2013 10:38:21 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Pedro Alves Cc: Yao Qi , Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] skip_prolgoue (amd64) References: <1385735051-27558-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <1385735051-27558-3-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <201311291436.rATEaZ5Z030292@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <201311291605.rATG5XVb030184@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <52994E79.4000004@codesourcery.com> <5299B9D0.2020304@redhat.com> <529C37A2.9000207@codesourcery.com> <529E9462.9010001@codesourcery.com> <529F1B1F.2040606@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:38:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <529F1B1F.2040606@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:07:59 +0000") Message-ID: <87ob4wr5hv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2013-12/txt/msg00145.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves 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