From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5][RFT] sfence wmb for K7,P3,VIAC3-2(?)
Date: 01 Apr 2003 13:49:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049197774.31041.15.camel@averell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030401112800.GA23027@suse.de>
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:28, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:11:00PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > sfence is part of SSE2. That's X86_SSE2
>
> I'm not so sure this is correct. A quick google suggests
> otherwise, and the C3 Nehemiah (which only supports SSE1) seems
> to run sfence instructions just fine.
Yes, you're correct. It was SSE1, not SSE2.
The problem Zwane encountered is that early Athlons don't support SSE1,
only XP+ do
To use it he would need an a new CONFIG split for Athlon XP and earlier
Athlon. iirc it didn't make much difference on the athlon anyways which
has quite fast locked operations on exclusive cachelines - sfence seems
to be more useful on P4.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-01 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-01 8:05 [PATCH][2.5][RFT] sfence wmb for K7,P3,VIAC3-2(?) Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-01 8:22 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-01 10:11 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-01 11:28 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-01 11:49 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-04-01 16:07 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-01 16:26 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-01 18:31 ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-01 23:32 ` Dave Jones
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