Re: RFC: unlazy fpu for frequent fpu users

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Jul 01 2006 - 08:59:57 EST


On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:31 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > + /* prefetch the fxsave area into the cache */
> > + prefetch(&next->i387.fxsave);
>
> This chunk is not obviously related to the rest of the patch, and
> perhaps needs additional justification.

ok fair enough; will improve the comment

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