linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] More i387 state save/restore work

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Date:	Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:06:33 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, anton@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] More i387 state save/restore work

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> You may have to do something else than just do some FP calculation to
> force it to use VSX on PPC, obviously.

And don't tell me that I should use pipes to bounce a byte back and
forth instead of just relying on sched_yield() hopefully doing what I
wanted it to do even for non-RT case. Yeah, I probably should, but
this was simpler and I'm a moron.

                 Linus
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