Commit 12600999 authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar

x86/fpu: Improve the comment for the fpu::counter field

This was pretty hard to read, improve it.
Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav 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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent c0c2803d
......@@ -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;
};
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