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

Suresh Siddha
2008-08-09T17:48:40Z

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 05:38:30PM -0700, 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.

Yes. I mean both perf and stability tests when I meant by "test".

> 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.

Please be assured that I would like to close/adddress all the perf and
stability issues and it doesn't matter whose processor it is ;)