From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/5] x86,fpu: delay FPU register loading until switch to userspace
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:48:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1475585299.21644.53.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161004063552.GA1035@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 08:35 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>
> > > We can get rid of fpu.counter, since nobody uses it
> > > any more.
> >
> > We should definitely do this.
> >
> > Maybe getting in some cleanups first (my lazy fpu deletion,
> > fpu.counter removal, etc) first is the way to go.
>
> Could you guys please submit all pending FPU bits that aren't new
> functionality to -tip? I'll remove lazy FPU handling if you don't
> beat me to it.
>
> Plus after lazy FPU removal we should take another good look and
> make the FPU state machine even more obvious and self-documenting.
>
> Upstream merge commit 597f03f9d133 would be a good base.
I am flying out to Europe tomorrow, but will try to get
you the cleanups some time this week. Besides the first
four patcehs from Andy, there is a shortlist of a few
more small changes.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-01 20:31 [PATCH RFC 0/5] x86,fpu: make FPU context switching much lazier riel
2016-10-01 20:31 ` [PATCH RFC 1/5] x86,fpu: split prev/next task fpu state handling riel
2016-10-01 23:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-02 0:02 ` Rik van Riel
2016-10-01 20:31 ` [PATCH RFC 2/5] x86,fpu: delay FPU register loading until switch to userspace riel
2016-10-01 23:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-02 0:08 ` Rik van Riel
2016-10-03 20:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-03 21:21 ` Rik van Riel
2016-10-03 21:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-04 1:29 ` Rik van Riel
2016-10-04 2:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-04 2:47 ` Rik van Riel
2016-10-04 3:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-04 6:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-10-04 12:48 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2016-10-04 2:11 ` Rik van Riel
2016-10-04 3:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-02 0:42 ` Rik van Riel
2016-10-03 16:23 ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-01 20:31 ` [PATCH RFC 3/5] x86,fpu: add kernel fpu argument to __kernel_fpu_begin riel
2016-10-01 20:31 ` [PATCH RFC 4/5] x86,fpu: lazily skip FPU restore when still loaded riel
2016-10-03 20:04 ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-03 20:22 ` Rik van Riel
2016-10-03 20:49 ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-03 21:02 ` Rik van Riel
2016-10-01 20:31 ` [PATCH RFC 5/5] x86,fpu: kinda sorta fix up signal path riel
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