Re: PATCH: checksum optimization on semi-686's

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sat, 22 May 1999 15:03:48 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 16 May 1999, Alex K. wrote:

>OK, here's my patch that should optimize checksumming on my Cyrix
>6x86MX. I ran the code in a test program, and it gave me 50% more speed

Did you ever tried it? According to me it should generate a misplaced
%%esp that will cause a segfault. But even if the popl would not eat the
stack the checksum retval would be wrong.

Andrea Arcangeli

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