[RFC] Moving toward smarter disabling of FPRs, VRs, and VSRs in the MSR

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Mar 15 00:49:02 EST 2009


> Another option might be simply to say that if an app has used FP,  
> VMX or
> VSX -once-, then it's likely to do it again and just keep re-enabling
> it :-)
>
> I'm serious here, do we know that many cases where these things are  
> used
> seldomly once in a while ?

For FP, I believe many apps use it only sporadically.  But for VMX  
and VSX,
yeah, it might well be optimal to keep it enabled all the time.  Someone
should do some profiling...


Segher




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