Re: [Bug 350] New: i386 context switch very slow compared to 2.4 due to wrmsr (performance)

From: Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 12:52:00 EST

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:45:08AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> [...] I have no real interest in vm86 mode, perhaps one of the people
> interested in dosemu etc. could take care of it. I'm very glad it doesn't
> exist on my main architecture - x86-64 - given how many hacks it needs to be
> supported.

So what about making it a CONFIG_XXX option? The few dosemu users
could then configure it in.

Regards

Ingo Oeser

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