From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752488AbcAWKUC (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2016 05:20:02 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:52644 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751707AbcAWKUA (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2016 05:20:00 -0500 Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:19:29 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fenghua Yu , Oleg Nesterov , Peter Zijlstra , Sai Praneeth Prakhya , yu-cheng yu , Dave Hansen , Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86/fpu: Default eagerfpu=on on all CPUs Message-ID: <20160123101929.GC16329@pd.tnic> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.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.