Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86,fpu: remove redundant increments of fpu_counter

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Feb 02 2015 - 13:40:29 EST


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On 02/02/2015 01:34 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/02, riel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> fpu.preload only gets set if new->thread.fpu_counter is already
>> larger than 5. Incrementing it further does absolutely nothing.
>> Remove those lines.
>
> I _think_ that we increment it further on purpose. Note that
> fpu_counter is "char", so it seems that we want no more than 256
> automatic preloads.
>
> So I am not sure about this change. At least the changelog doesn't
> look right.

You are right, lets drop this patch 6/6.

Do the other five look right?

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