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

Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-02T11:21:03Z

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 06:01:27PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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*...

Ok, I'll rework that part, so that preallocation only happens on systems
that support non-lazy states. That means patch #7 is going away and
patch #8 is getting slightly bigger. This may take a few days as I have
to test that again.

Meanwhile, could you please take a look at patches #1 to #6?

Hans

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