Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-03T18:06:05Z

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 04:12:47 +0200
Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I also did this simple test which gives a ~2.5x speed boost:
> http://pastebin.ca/1590089

the number that is exposed in /proc/cpuinfo does not control
if cmov is used... so the patch and the benchmark are totally unrelated.

Anything that needs to know if cmov can be used will need to read the
flags line..

(since technically cmov is also optional for generation 6 and later)

While I can't say anything against your patch, I do need to say that it
is something purely cosmetic on first sight...

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