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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-04-22 09:57:24 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-05-19 15:47:14 +0200 |
commit | 126009993faa7a750835e67f3ccb90cee124ffa7 (patch) | |
tree | 122df485a0ecefaa9af629a7ef904b2ae8be63ec | |
parent | c0c2803dee21bef08ef5aacdf96fe2f1759ccc62 (diff) |
x86/fpu: Improve the comment for the fpu::counter field
This was pretty hard to read, improve it.
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h index 64d6b5d97ce9..28df85561730 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -435,11 +435,11 @@ struct fpu { union thread_xstate *state; /* * This counter contains the number of consecutive context switches - * that the FPU is used. If this is over a threshold, the lazy fpu - * saving becomes unlazy to save the trap. This is an unsigned char - * so that after 256 times the counter wraps and the behavior turns - * lazy again; this to deal with bursty apps that only use FPU for - * a short time + * during which the FPU stays used. If this is over a threshold, the + * lazy fpu saving logic becomes unlazy, to save the trap overhead. + * This is an unsigned char so that after 256 iterations the counter + * wraps and the context switch behavior turns lazy again; this is to + * deal with bursty apps that only use the FPU for a short time: */ unsigned char counter; }; |