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Commit 1dcc8d7b authored by Suresh Siddha's avatar Suresh Siddha Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit



There is no need to save any active fpu state to the task structure
memory if the task is dead. Just drop the state instead.

For example, this saved some 1770 xsave's during the system boot
of a two socket Xeon system.

Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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