Re: Performance issue in 2.5.32+

From: James Morris (jmorris@intercode.com.au)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 07:55:24 EST

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On 8 Sep 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:

> 2.5.32 added the TLS changes, which do rewrite the GDT in context switch.
> Does it go away when you comment out the call to load_TLS in
> arch/i386/kernel/process.c:__switch_to() ?

Nope, the lmbench results look roughly the same.

- James

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