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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 02:42:06 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode linux]
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Em Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 05:35:13AM +0000, Linus Torvalds escreveu:
> This will break _horribly_ when (if) glibc starts using SSE2 for things
> like memcpy() etc.

Humm, related, wasn't one way of having userspace have access to the kernel
optimized versions of memcpy et al, thru a page with these functions that would
be mapped into the process address space (don't remember exact details)
something still being considered?

- Arnaldo
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