Re: Intel Pentium Bug: BSDI Releases a patch

linux kernel account (linker@nightshade.z.ml.org)
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:13:12 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> If I read it right not that bad at all - and its less traps than I though as
> someone pointed out its 8 bytes trap so its only the lower traps they are
> page faulting
>

8? Is not the FPU context switch in there?

If it's more then a tiny slowdown, then there should be a sysctl to
disable the protection..