Re: [RFC] Features patch

2006-12-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:24:43AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > For some reasons (fxsave/rstor, global page bit), we need to know which > features the CPU has. Here is a patch for adding this support. Any > comments? Thanks, yes, feel free to install. Regards, Thomas signature.as

[RFC] global page support

2006-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Global pages permit to keep the kernel pages in the TLB whatever the current process, here is a patch for supporting them. On my Pentium M, I get a 5% speedup on dd < /dev/zero bs=1 > /dev/null . Samuel 2006-12-19 Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add support for global pages.

Re: [RFC] global page support

2006-12-20 Thread Roland McGrath
looks about right to me ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Gnumach FP Struct (Beating a dead horse)

2006-12-20 Thread Barry deFreese
Heya gang, I apologize for keep going on about this but I still don't quite understand why a seperate struct is needed for i386_fp_regs. Here is what gnumachs looks like: struct i386_fp_save { unsigned short fp_control; /* control */ unsigned short fp_unused_1;