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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	eich@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch] context-switching overhead in X, ioport(), 2.6.8.1
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:31:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040822173128.GA31054@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040822142344.GA81458@muc.de>


* Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:

> > Xorg and XFree assume the kernel will have intelligent limits. When the
> > range went up the EnableIO code in turn switched to ioperm.
> 
> Which was the wrong thing to do since it is slower.

it is not significantly slower with older kernels or with the patch
applied, and it's safer than an all-ports iopl(3).

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-22 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2vEzI-Vw-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-22 12:16 ` [patch] context-switching overhead in X, ioport(), 2.6.8.1 Andi Kleen
2004-08-22 12:00   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-22 14:23     ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-22 14:47       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-22 17:31       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-08-21 13:55 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-22  4:46 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-22  5:42   ` Ryan Cumming
2004-08-22  6:00     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-22  6:06       ` Ryan Cumming

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