Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 08 Oct 2001 22:00:28 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Context switch times | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:55:23 -0600
So what exactly is the difference between our "delayed FPU restore upon trap" (which I think of as lazy FPU saving), and the "lazy FP" saving in the comments?
Save always on swithching OUT from a task vs. save only when some different task asks for the FPU.
Franks a lot, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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