On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> [...] On P6 class CPUs it takes 36 cycles to reload %fs and %gs, [...]
correction: 14 cycles.
> when applied to 2.5.3-pre5, the patch achieves a 2.5% improvement in
> 2-task lat_ctx context-switch performance.
(the 2.5% improvement is correct.)
Ingo
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