5-STABLE kernel build with icc broken
Alexander Leidinger
Alexander at Leidinger.net
Tue Mar 29 03:24:49 PST 2005
jason henson <jason at ec.rr.com> wrote:
> >Various:
> > - auto-vectorizer (no benefit for the kernel, since we can't use >
> FPU/SIMD instructions at any time... yet (interested hackers can
> > have a look how DragonFly handles it, I can provide the necessary
> > commit logs))
> > >
> Are you implying DragonFly uses FPU/SIMD? For that matter does any kernel?
AFAIK DragonFly _allows_ code to use the FPU/SIMD in the kernel. And AFAIR
they use SIMD in b{copy,zero} (we do this too, but we do this is in a
"controlled environment" whereas DFly just allows the use of FPU/SIMD in an
"use as you like" manner everywhere).
Bye,
Alexander.
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