On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:22:02AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Suresh Siddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy > > migration of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows > > the following two optimizations: > > > > 1) only allocate when the application actually uses FPU, so in the > > first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps. > > Next patch does this lazy allocation. > > > > 2) allocate the right size for the actual cpu rather than 512 bytes > > always. Patches enabling xsave/xrstor support (coming shortly) will > > take advantage of this. > > i like the concept. Please clean up the issues found by Christoph and > please also base it against x86.git#testing [this is clear 2.6.26 > material and there are already some changes in this area]: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README
Sure. Will do that in a day. thanks, suresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
