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SubjectRe: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
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> On Mon, 18 May 1998, [ISO-8859-1] André Derrick Balsa wrote:
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> #I have a question. The 6x86MX allows one to lock L1 cache lines. Would
> #it be interesting to group some kernel variables and keep them in the L1
> #cache? Would that increase the kernel performance during context
> #switches?

H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl said:
> A good candidate would be the first lines of the task_struct and tss
> structs of the top 4 CPU using processes. Or maybe some
> very-often-used kernel structure.

Wouldn't such things possibly be cached anyhow?

How 'bout the interrupt stack (or least the beginning of it)?

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