Feature #8538
Feature #8534: Want AVX-512 Support
add support for xsaveopt for improved context switching
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 2017-07-25 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: |  Jerry Jelinek | % Done: | 100% | |
| Category: | kernel | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Difficulty: | Medium | Tags: |
Description
The xsave support we're currently using requires a fixed size and overhead for the save area. As Intel adds more state to their newer CPUs, the size of the xsave area keeps increasing. Intel has added two new instructions, xsavec and xsaveopt which can improve the performance needed to save CPU state.
History
#1
Updated by Electric Monk 10 months ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
git commit 088d69f878cf3fb57556357236ef8e1c8f9d893e
commit 088d69f878cf3fb57556357236ef8e1c8f9d893e
Author: Jerry Jelinek <jerry.jelinek@joyent.com>
Date: 2017-08-16T17:06:52.000Z
8534 Want AVX-512 Support
8535 kernel cpuid support for new processors
8536 xsave area should size dynamically, based on CPU features
8537 rtld needs to learn about AVX512
8538 add support for xsaveopt for improved context switching
8539 better handling for AMD-specifc *save_ctxt FP exceptions
Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
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