From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Why ssse3?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:56:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4639171A.3050004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705030046.07152.ak@suse.de>
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential.
>
> It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4
OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed. According to
Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses "pni". Too bad.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 22:41 Why ssse3? Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02 22:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 22:56 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2007-05-03 2:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-03 8:52 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-03 9:02 ` Avi Kivity
2007-05-03 9:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-03 16:03 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-02 22:47 ` Ismail Dönmez
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