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SubjectRe: [patch 1/2] x86,fpu: split FPU state from task struct

* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:

> Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy
> migration of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows
> the following two optimizations:
>
> 1) only allocate when the application actually uses FPU, so in the
> first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps.
> Next patch does this lazy allocation.
>
> 2) allocate the right size for the actual cpu rather than 512 bytes
> always. Patches enabling xsave/xrstor support (coming shortly) will
> take advantage of this.

i like the concept. Please clean up the issues found by Christoph and
please also base it against x86.git#testing [this is clear 2.6.26
material and there are already some changes in this area]:

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README

Ingo


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