Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Patch to enable K6-2 and K6-3 processor optimizations | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 09 Aug 2002 11:31:19 +0100 |
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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
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