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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Cc: "bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net" <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Hardware upticks
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:22:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160105172211.52c67535@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160106005537.GA20844@sesse.net>

On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 01:55:37 +0100
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 04:53:14PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >> Also, I've never ever seen the actual context switch turn up high in a perf
> >> profile.  Is this because of some sampling artifact?
> > Yes, especially with Intel processors getting more and more SSE/floating point
> > registers.
> 
> But those are not saved on context switch to the kernel, no? (Thus the rule
> of no floating-point in the kernel.) Only if you switch between userspace
> processes

Right that just punts the work to the kernel when it context switches
to next process.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-06  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05  6:37 Jonathan Morton
2016-01-05 17:42 ` Aaron Wood
2016-01-05 18:27   ` Jonathan Morton
2016-01-05 18:57     ` Dave Täht
2016-01-05 19:29       ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-05 19:37         ` Dave Täht
2016-01-05 20:13           ` David Collier-Brown
2016-01-05 20:27           ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-05 21:10             ` Jonathan Morton
2016-01-05 23:20             ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-05 23:17           ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-05 21:36       ` Benjamin Cronce
2016-01-06  0:01         ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-06  0:06           ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-06  0:22             ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-06  0:53               ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-06  0:55                 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-06  1:22                   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-01-06  6:18               ` Jonathan Morton

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