Re: ping bug

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:51:10AM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:

    Are you about kernel? Well, if such thoughts visit you, then help
    me to answer simpler question: what is the simplest method to use
    FPU from irqs?

Run away, run away!!!!

    Alas, softmodem drivers need this. That which have this part of
    code open just saves fpu context at each irq. Even not doing
    clts. :-) But what to change in core to make this correctly (and
    faster)?

How else can you do this? You can think of various lazy save/restore
schemes but I can't see how to make any of them work on SMP systems
cleanly.




  --cw