Subject: Re: port-mips/29698: floating point context not saved in pthread/mips
To: None <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/15/2005 08:38:12
On Mar 15, 2005, at 6:35 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> Idea: save/restore fp regs in lib/libpthread/arch/mips/
Unconditional save/restore of FP context on every thread switch is
potentially quite expensive. We really need some way to tell userspace
that a particular LWP has used the FPU.
-- thorpej