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Commit 07e45c12 authored by Anton Blanchard's avatar Anton Blanchard Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc: Don't disable kernel FP/VMX/VSX MSR bits on context switch

Writing the MSR is slow, so we want to avoid it whenever possible.

A subsequent patch will add a debug option that strictly manages the
FP/VMX/VSX unavailable bits. For now just remove it, matching what
we do in other areas of the kernel (eg enable_kernel_altivec()).

A context switch microbenchmark using yield():

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c



./context_switch2 --test=yield --fp 0 0

shows an improvement of almost 3% on POWER8.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 31a40e2b
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