Re: x86 memcpy performance

[Andrew Lutomirski]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:12 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 08:36 AM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> (*)  kernel_fpu_begin is a bad name.  It's only safe to use integer
>> instructions inside a kernel_fpu_begin section because MXCSR (and the
>> 387 equivalent) could contain garbage.
>>
>
> Uh... no, it just means you have to initialize the settings.  It's a
> perfectly good name, it's called kernel_fpu_begin, not kernel_fp_begin.

I prefer get_xstate / put_xstate, but this could rapidly devolve into
bikeshedding. :)

--Andy
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