Re: [PATCH 1/4][Xen-devel] X86 microcode: cancel redundant input parameter of microcode functions

Christoph Egger
2009-01-22T08:42:01Z

On Thursday 22 January 2009 04:08:21 Liu, Jinsong wrote:
> X86 microcode: cancel redundant input parameter of microcode functions
>
> Cancel redundant input parameter ''uci'', since it can get
from another input
> parameter ''cpu'' as index.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>

I added the parameter ''uci'' to reduce dependency on a global
variable.
That improves reentrancy and cache locality.

If you want to go a step forward rather back, then remove the
''cpu'' parameter
instead.

Christoph

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