Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:44:00 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: Question: Using floating point in the kernel |
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:36:17AM +0000, John Alvord wrote: > A 2.5-time problem is that portions of the kernel are planned to > become interruptible... so saving and restoring around a certain usage > would be insufficient.
It is sufficient when you do tsk->flags |= PF_USEDFPU first.
Anyways, better think about 2.5 when it is there and not now. Overdesigning for possible futures is usually a mistake, because the future often looks different than you think now and you have to remove the garbage then anyways.
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