Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 22:28:03 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] string-486.h modified |
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Hi!
> > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Petko Manolov wrote: > > > > > > [Snipped...] > > > > > > Good. You understand. Keep up the good work. > > > > > > I realy would like to see this code in use ;-) > > After you test it **THOUROUGHLY**, send a patch to Linus. I > recommend testing it in a user-mode program with all kinds of > sizes/shapes/lengths/offsets, etc., and making certain that you > don't destroy any registers that are "precious" for the > usual versions of gcc. > > If your patch doesn't hurt anything, even if it only adds marginal > performance, I'm pretty sure that Linus will accept it.
I think patch like this is not safe for 2.4.X-pre.
However, in 2.5.0 we should apply it, and force it on *all* cpus just to test it well. Then in 2.5.10 we should turn it off for pentium/MMX+.
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