Re: context switching pessimizations

2003-04-05 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: > Recent optimizations of context switching are large pessimizations > according to lmbench2, at least in the default case (no LAZY_SWITCH). The ifdefs are just so convoluted that they are broken in the !LAZY_SWITCH case. %%% Index: swtch.s

context switching pessimizations

2003-04-05 Thread Bruce Evans
Recent optimizations of context switching are large pessimizations according to lmbench2, at least in the default case (no LAZY_SWITCH). >From lmbench2 output on an AthlonXP-1600 overclocked with no acpi (so the timecounter is the TSC and doesn't pessimize context switching all by itself), and no