From: Suresh Siddha Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 22:03:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit X-Git-Tag: v3.5-rc1~126^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1dcc8d7ba235a316a056f993e88f0d18b92c60d9;p=pandora-kernel.git x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit There is no need to save any active fpu state to the task structure memory if the task is dead. Just drop the state instead. For example, this saved some 1770 xsave's during the system boot of a two socket Xeon system. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- Reading git-diff-tree failed