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Message-ID: <1347045657.26695.64.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:20:56 -0700 From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: mingo@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, andreas.herrmann3@....com, bp@...64.org, robert.richter@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 11:43 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 09/07/2012 11:31 AM, Suresh Siddha wrote: > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > > index 6273099..b21bcbd 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > > @@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. > > enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. > > > > eagerfpu= [X86] > > - on enable eager fpu restore > > + on enable eager fpu restore (default for xsaveopt) > > off disable eager fpu restore > > > > Should we make this a tristate (on, off, default/auto)? Intention is to automatically enable it for xsaveopt with out any explicit boot parameters (for the advantages I mentioned in the previous changelogs). thanks, suresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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