On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:47:23AM +0200, Bodo Stroesser wrote:
> I also thought about not saving FP-regs on each kernel entry. But if you do
> this optimization, you need to save / restore FP-regs on switch_to. Also you
> need to get the FP-regs when setting up a signal-handler stackframe. And
> they
> have to be restored on sys_(rt_)sigreturn from the values found in the
> stackframe.
True, but these are much less frequent than kernel entries/exits.
> I hope, I didn't miss some other places that would need adaption.
Offhand, this sounds right.
Jeff
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