Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757397Ab0FPJo6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:44:58 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1025 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755837Ab0FPJo5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:44:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4C189CBF.1040701@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:43:27 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-3.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samuel Thibault , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Arjan van de Ven , Thomas Gleixner , Suresh Siddha , Linus Torvalds , Fr??d??ric Weisbecker , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Eric Dumazet , Mike Galbraith , "H. Peter Anvin" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Really lazy fpu References: <1276441427-31514-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4C187C22.2080505@redhat.com> <4C187DF1.9030007@zytor.com> <4C188527.9040305@redhat.com> <20100616083941.GA27151@elte.hu> <20100616090155.GK4240@const> In-Reply-To: <20100616090155.GK4240@const> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 21 On 06/16/2010 12:01 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ingo Molnar, le Wed 16 Jun 2010 10:39:41 +0200, a ?crit : > >> in the long run most processes will be using the FPU due to SIMM >> instructions. >> > I believe glibc already uses SIMM instructions for e.g. memcpy and > friends, i.e. basically all applications... > I think they ought to be using 'rep movs' on newer processors, but yes you're right. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/