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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][2.5 patch] K6-II/K6-II: enable X86_USE_3DNOW
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:37:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030415193709.GR9640@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050357987.26525.24.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:06:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-04-14 at 23:27, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:21:10AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >  > If my patch is wrong and this is a RTFM please give me a hint where to 
> >  > find the "M".
> >  > 
> >  > The AMD K6-II and K6-III do support 3DNow!
> > 
> > The 3dnow memory copies aren't a win on anything
> > earlier than an Athlon iirc.
> 
> Under 1% on a K6. The processor is so horribly memory bound the
> actual copy function is borderline irrelevant. If its not in the
> K6-III cache its not arriving in a hurry

Ah thanks, this is the information I didn't know.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-15 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-14 22:21 [RFC][2.5 patch] K6-II/K6-II: enable X86_USE_3DNOW Adrian Bunk
2003-04-14 22:27 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-14 22:06   ` Alan Cox
2003-04-15 19:37     ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2003-04-14 22:36 ` Robert Love
2003-04-15  8:50   ` Paweł Gołaszewski
2003-04-15 19:39   ` Adrian Bunk

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