From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>,
yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86/fpu: Default eagerfpu=on on all CPUs
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:19:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160123101929.GC16329@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3b2baadcd19bf8abcd3bcd60d19e8e50e75f63a.1453510332.git.luto@kernel.org>
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 04:56:06PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> To try to shake out any latent issues on old hardware, this changes
> the default to eager on all CPUs. If no performance or functionality
> problems show up, a subsequent patch could remove lazy mode entirely.
Yes, I think we should do it, or at least try it. Maybe wait longer than
a kernel release - maybe 2 to be absolutely sure and so that we have
enough time to handle possible breakages.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-23 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-23 0:56 [PATCH 0/5] x86/fpu: eagerfpu fixes, speedups, and default enablement Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-23 0:56 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/fpu: Fix math emulation in eager fpu mode Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-23 10:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-23 17:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-23 17:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-23 0:56 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/fpu: Fix FNSAVE usage in eagerfpu mode Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-23 0:56 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/fpu: Fold fpu_copy into fpu__copy Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-23 0:56 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/fpu: Speed up lazy FPU restores slightly Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-23 10:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-23 22:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-23 23:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-23 0:56 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86/fpu: Default eagerfpu=on on all CPUs Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-23 10:19 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
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