Re: Patch to enable K6-2 and K6-3 processor optimizations

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 05:31:19 EST

We can't actually use MMX/FPU instructions in the kernel in the general
case. That would require saving and restoring the user process floating
point state - which is extremely expensive

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Aug 15 2002 - 22:00:19 EST