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[Bug dynamic-link/20508] _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512 cause transition penalty
- From: "hjl.tools at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:57:10 +0000
- Subject: [Bug dynamic-link/20508] _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512 cause transition penalty
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- References: <bug-20508-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20508
--- Comment #2 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #1)
> I also expect that the present state of affairs makes all context switches
> slower because the kernel has to save and restore the AVX-512F state.
Context switches may not be impacted since XSAVEC and XSAVEOPT track
upper bits of vector registers. But SSE transition tracks only YMM/ZMM
load instructions, not the bits in vector registers.
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