It doesn't look like it, from what I could tell after the abovementioned
conversation... I was wondering mostly how many bytes this saved across
the kernel. If it saves a byte in one place it's not so interesting,
but if it is all over it might make more sense.
It bit much worse on P4 than on most other cores, though.
-hpa
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