Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:22:02 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, andi@firstfloor.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] x86,fpu: split FPU state from task struct
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* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:

> Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy 
> migration of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows 
> the following two optimizations:
> 
> 1) only allocate when the application actually uses FPU, so in the 
> first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps. 
> Next patch does this lazy allocation.
> 
> 2) allocate the right size for the actual cpu rather than 512 bytes 
> always. Patches enabling xsave/xrstor support (coming shortly) will 
> take advantage of this.

i like the concept. Please clean up the issues found by Christoph and 
please also base it against x86.git#testing [this is clear 2.6.26 
material and there are already some changes in this area]:

   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README

	Ingo
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