Re: [patch] lazy TSS's I/O bitmap copy ...

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> IMHO since the GPF path is not a fast path like a page fault, we shouldn't 
> be in bad shape with the current approach. No?

I agree. Mostly. It might actually be a fairly critical path for some 
things, though. GP's happen with high frequency in emulation environments, 
ie I'd expect both vmware and dosemu to have just _tons_ of them.

Of course, in those emulation environments you usually have other things 
going on too (ie signal handling costs will likely dwarf everything else). 
So who knows..

		Linus
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