Re: [PATCH 0/4] Really lazy fpu

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/16/2010 02:32 PM, George Spelvin wrote:
> (An halfway version of this optimization whoch sould avoid the need for
> an IPI would be *save* the FPU state, but mark it "clean", so the re-load
> can be skipped if we're lucky.  If the code supported this as well as the
> IPI alternative, you could make a heuristic guess at switch-out time
> whether to save immediately or hope the odds of needing the IPI are less than
> the fxsave/IPI cost ratio.)
>    

That's an interesting optimization - and we already have something 
similar in the form of fpu preload.  Shouldn't be too hard to do.

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