Re: [patch] i386: use thread_info flags for debug regs and IO bitmaps

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 
> After I saw a ~7% gain in task-switch performance, I like it now
> even without perfmon2 in there.

So is the 7% performance gain visible with just that single patch 
(presumably because it avoids a cache miss associated with reading the 
processor state further away?)

If you have performance improvement numbers for just this one patch, I 
have no objections (but it would be good to then make those numbers part 
of the commit message).

			Linus
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