Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 00:51:39 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:09:20PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>...
> > > - Which CPUs exactly need X86_ALIGNMENT_16?
> >
> >Unsure. This could use testing on a few systems.
> 
> K7s and P5s (and 486s too if I remember correctly) strongly prefer
> code entry points and loop labels to be 16-byte aligned. This is
> due to the way code is fetched from L1.
>...

Hm, that's pretty different from the definition in -test5:

config X86_ALIGNMENT_16
        bool
        depends on MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIPC6 || MCYRIXIII || 
          MELAN || MK6 || M586MMX || M586TSC || M586 || M486 || MVIAC3_2
        default y


> /Mikael

cu
Adrian

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