Re: [patch 06/11] syslets: core, documentation

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:17:59PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > That's an incorrect assumption.  Every task/thread in the system has FPU 
> > state associated with it, in part due to the fact that glibc has to change 
> > some of the rounding mode bits, making them different than the default from 
> > a freshly initialized state.
> 
> IMO I still belive this is not a huge problem. FPU state propagation/copy 
> can be done in a clever way, once we detect the in-async condition.

Show me.  clts() and stts() are expensive hardware operations which there 
is no means of avoiding as control register writes impact the CPU in a not 
trivial manner.  I've spent far too much time staring at profiles of what 
goes on in the context switch code in the process of looking for optimizations 
on this very issue to be ignored on this point.

		-ben
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