Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:54:26 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 350] New: i386 context switch very slow compared to 2.4 due to wrmsr (performance) |
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:21:43AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > I feel I'm missing something obvious here, but is this part the > > low-hanging fruit that it seems ? > You have eliminated one MSR write very cleanly, although there are > still a few unnecessary conditionals when compared with grabbing a > whole branch of the fruit tree, as it were. > > That leaves the other MSR write, which is also unnecessary.
Removing that one didn't seem quite so easy, so I wussed out.
Dave
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