Re: [PATCH] [RFC] [2.5 i386] GCC 3.1 -march support, PPRO_FENCE reduction, prefetch fixes and other CPU-related changes

From: J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 13:59:52 EST

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On 20020804 Luca Barbieri wrote:
> This is a revised version of a patch I posted a few months ago and
> implements all the suggestions that were posted in reply and several
> other things.
>
> - Defines CONFIG_X86_{686,MMX{EXT,},SSE{2,},3DNOW{EXT,}}: all except
> MMXEXT are currently unused (this is the reason for splitting
> Athlon-SSE, 6x86MX and Pentium2)

You could also add the optimized memory barriers from Zwane Mwaikambo.
Take a look at:
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.19-jam0/22-mem-barriers.bz2

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