Re: 2.6.18-rc6-mm1: GPF loop on early boot

Ingo Molnar
2006-09-11T05:18:20Z

Jeremy,

another thing about i386-pda: why did you pick the %gs selector to store
the PDA in? %fs would be a better choice because %gs is used by glibc so
the saving/restoring of %fs would likely be near zero-cycles cost.
(instead of the current 9 cycles for saving/restoring %gs)

Ingo