Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 22 Apr 2001 03:18:56 +0100 (BST)

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> Only if it traps on the esc op-code --and if it does, we are in a
> world or hurt for performance. There is no other way that the kernel

FPU lazy task switch exceptions are a feature of X86 hardware. Have been for
a very very long time.

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