linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Chuck Ebbert acc207616a [PATCH] i386: add sleazy FPU optimization
i386 port of the sLeAZY-fpu feature.  Chuck reports that this gives him a +/-
0.4% improvement on his simple benchmark

x86_64 description follows:

Right now the kernel on x86-64 has a 100% lazy fpu behavior: after *every*
context switch a trap is taken for the first FPU use to restore the FPU
context lazily.  This is of course great for applications that have very
sporadic or no FPU use (since then you avoid doing the expensive save/restore
all the time).  However for very frequent FPU users...  you take an extra trap
every context switch.

The patch below adds a simple heuristic to this code: After 5 consecutive
context switches of FPU use, the lazy behavior is disabled and the context
gets restored every context switch.  If the app indeed uses the FPU, the trap
is avoided.  (the chance of the 6th time slice using FPU after the previous 5
having done so are quite high obviously).

After 256 switches, this is reset and lazy behavior is returned (until there
are 5 consecutive ones again).  The reason for this is to give apps that do
longer bursts of FPU use still the lazy behavior back after some time.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:01 +01:00
..
alpha [NET]: Alpha checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:01 -08:00
arm Fix misc Kconfig typos 2006-11-30 05:22:59 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] remove bogus arch-specific syscall exports 2006-10-11 11:17:07 -07:00
avr32 AVR32: Add missing return instruction in __raw_writesb 2006-11-06 14:07:16 +01:00
cris [NET]: Cris checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:02 -08:00
frv [NET]: FRV checksum annotations. 2006-12-02 21:23:03 -08:00
h8300 [NET]: H8300 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:04 -08:00
i386 [PATCH] i386: add sleazy FPU optimization 2006-12-07 02:14:01 +01:00
ia64 [NET]: IA64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:05 -08:00
m32r [NET]: M32R checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:06 -08:00
m68k [NET]: M68K checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:07 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: remove __rom_end from 68360 startup code 2006-12-04 08:26:12 -08:00
mips [MIPS] Cleanup memory barriers for weakly ordered systems. 2006-12-04 22:43:14 +00:00
parisc [NET]: PARISC checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:10 -08:00
powerpc [POWERPC] Add missing EXPORTS for mpc52xx support 2006-12-05 11:34:37 +11:00
ppc [POWERPC] Add files build to .gitignore 2006-12-04 20:41:29 +11:00
s390 [S390] Don't use small stacks when lockdep is used. 2006-12-04 15:41:10 +01:00
sh [NET]: Kill direct includes of asm/checksum.h 2006-12-02 21:22:59 -08:00
sh64 [NET]: SH64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:11 -08:00
sparc Fix misc Kconfig typos 2006-11-30 05:22:59 +01:00
sparc64 PCI: Use pci_generic_prep_mwi on sparc64 2006-12-01 14:36:57 -08:00
um [NET]: UML checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:12 -08:00
v850 [NET]: V850 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:13 -08:00
x86_64 [PATCH] x86: all cpu backtrace 2006-12-07 02:14:01 +01:00
xtensa [PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections 2006-10-27 15:34:51 -07:00