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On 01/13/2015 12:11 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:46 PM, <r...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h
>> b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h index 4db8781..a5a40c7
>> 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h +++
>> b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h @@ -435,13 +435,9 @@ static
>> inline void switch_fpu_prepare(struct task_struct *old, struct
>> task_struc old->thread.fpu.last_cpu = ~0; if (preload) {
>> new->thread.fpu_counter++; - if
>> (!use_eager_fpu() && fpu_lazy_restore(new, cpu)) -
>> /* XXX: is this safe against ptrace??? */ -
>> __thread_fpu_begin(new); - else { +
>> set_thread_flag(TIF_LOAD_FPU); + if
>> (!fpu_lazy_restore(new, cpu)) prefetch(new->thread.fpu.state);
>
> Is this prefetch still worth keeping? Wouldn't prefetching the
> fpu effectively require grabbing more than one cacheline anyway?
Probably not. I'll drop it, for more code simplification.
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