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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 22:55:24 +1000 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Subject: Re: Performance issue in 2.5.32+
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On 8 Sep 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:

> 2.5.32 added the TLS changes, which do rewrite the GDT in context switch.
> Does it go away when you comment out the call to load_TLS in 
> arch/i386/kernel/process.c:__switch_to() ?

Nope, the lmbench results look roughly the same.


- James
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