Re: Kernel oops with 2.6.26, padlock and ipsec: probably problem with fpu state changes

Wolfgang Walter
2008-08-09T01:54:21Z

On Saturday 09 August 2008, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:11:21PM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> >
> > As I can't test, can you please test this and Ack.
>
> Someone please test this with tcrypt mode=200 with and without
> the patch.

I'll do that. Where do I find tcrypt?

>
> If there is a significant degradation I suggest that we back out
> the FPU changes. Making your competitor's processor go slow is
> not a nice thing to do, especially when you've just released a
> processor in the same space.
>
> If the degradation is small then I'll push it to Linus.
>
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