Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 17:12:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: bakul@netcom.com (Bakul Shah) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, mycroft@ai.mit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: benchmark hell.. (Really context switch & FPU) Message-ID: <199504260012.RAA09198@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504252342.QAA25442@netcom2.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Apr 25, 95 04:42:34 pm
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Well, you guys, when can we see the code ?? > I didn't explain. Sorry! I assumed we would want to do > lazy FP context save/restore. Once you do that, further > refinements don't buy you very much. If you reread what I > wrote _in this context_, may be it will make more sense. > > > o The FPU has a "last used by" state variable > > o When the first FPU using process is run, this variable is > > set to its PID. > Okay. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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