> Maybe.  Are there better options?  Could we, for example, actually try
> to preserve the state if this happens? 

We probably could, at the cost of making the context switch a bit 
more expensive.

> Would it be worth it?

I doubt it.

I expect once WR*BASE is widely used noone will bother with selectors
for 64bit programs anymore.

-Andi

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