On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Bruce Evans wrote:

> Recent optimizations of context switching are large pessimizations
> according to lmbench2, at least in the default case (no LAZY_SWITCH).

The ifdefs are just so convoluted that they are broken in the
!LAZY_SWITCH case.

%%%
Index: swtch.s
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/i386/swtch.s,v
retrieving revision 1.136
diff -u -2 -r1.136 swtch.s
--- swtch.s     2 Apr 2003 23:53:28 -0000       1.136
+++ swtch.s     5 Apr 2003 10:40:20 -0000
@@ -175,4 +175,5 @@
 #endif
 1:
+#endif
        movl    %cr3,%ebx                       /* The same address space? */
        cmpl    %ebx,%eax
@@ -182,6 +183,4 @@
        je      sw1
 #endif
-#endif
-
 #ifdef SWTCH_OPTIM_STATS
        incl    tlb_flush_count
%%%

Bruce
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