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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 350] New: i386 context switch very slow compared to 2.4 due to wrmsr (performance)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:24:08 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2dvvo$7n5$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030212101831.GB10422@bjl1.jlokier.co.uk

In article <20030212101831.GB10422@bjl1.jlokier.co.uk>,
Jamie Lokier  <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
>
>I meant: the trampoline _stack_ lives in the TSS.
>
>There is no trampoline _code_.

Ahh, ok. That sounds quite doable, and all my complaints go away.

It still leaves the debug exception and NMI issue.

The debug exception case is easy to trigger: use gdb to single-step
through the user-lebel fast system call code, and you _will_ get a debug
exception on the very first kernel instruction (which is also the one
that doesn't have a valid stack). 

So anybody want to actually try to implement this?

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-12 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-12  1:35 [Bug 350] New: i386 context switch very slow compared to 2.4 due to wrmsr (performance) Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-12  2:59 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-12  4:21   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-12  5:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-12 10:12       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-03-10  3:07         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-10 11:06           ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-10 18:33             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-10 22:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-12 12:54     ` Dave Jones
2003-02-12  7:50   ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-12 10:27     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-12 10:45       ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-12 17:52         ` Ingo Oeser
2003-02-12 18:13           ` Dave Jones
2003-02-12 18:18           ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-13  2:42             ` Alan Cox
2003-02-13  5:17         ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-13 18:07           ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-14  0:14             ` [discuss] " Peter Tattam
2003-02-14  1:29               ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-14  1:51               ` Eric Northup
2003-02-14  2:01                 ` Peter Tattam
2003-02-14  4:07                   ` Thomas J. Merritt
2003-02-14  9:38                     ` Peter Finderup Lund
2003-02-14  8:27               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-19  1:22             ` Rob Landley
2003-02-12  4:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-12  5:54   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-12 10:18     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-12 17:24       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-03-18 15:24     ` Kevin Pedretti
2003-03-18 16:41       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-18 18:30         ` Brian Gerst
2003-03-18 19:14           ` Thomas Molina
2003-03-18 19:21           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-18 20:03             ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-03-18 20:24             ` Steven Cole
2003-03-19  0:42             ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-19  2:22               ` george anzinger
     [not found] <20030318165013$55f4@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030318184010$6448@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-18 20:19   ` Pascal Schmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-19  9:55 Ph. Marek

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