Re: [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Dec 01 2011 - 21:02:07 EST


On 12/01/2011 12:36 PM, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
>
> So I assume, if you have 10000s of processes on a legacy 32bit system
> that never do any FPU stuff or SSE optimizations, you might indeed waste
> a couple of megabytes. I don't think thats very realistic, but that's
> just my opinion.
>

A couple of megabytes of *lowmem*...

-hpa


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