Reply to post: Re: Hmmm... @Primus Secundus Tertius

Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

oldcoder

Re: Hmmm... @Primus Secundus Tertius

Depending on the CPU, it did have to save registers.

In other cases, the kernels did save registers as it could not determine BEFORE handling the interrupt, which task was going to be next.

The registers that took the longest was the FPU registers.

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