Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:54:51 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 mp_machdep.c Message-ID: <20030110115451.00284d1f.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <15901.60186.784326.204122@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <15900.19798.145783.459116@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <XFMail.20030108112708.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <15900.24024.800260.88293@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030109123807.64457d5d.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <15901.60186.784326.204122@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:35:22 -0500 (EST)
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> > > Yes, yes, I'll install a new kernel and reboot as soon as I can, but
> > > that might be a few days. My wife just started a CPU-intensive job on my
> > > box that I can't interrupt. Kudos to the person responsible for the
> > > icc port btw..
> >
> > In the name of all people which helped me: Thank you.
>
> BTW, is enabling SSE2 instruction generation safe? Eg, they don't use
> registers which could be clobbered by a context switch or something?
> I know we need CPU_ENABLE_SSE (which is now default) for SSE, but I
> was just wondering if there was more we needed for sse2?
I don't know. I don't have access to a machine with more than MMX where
I could run as much tests as I want to run (only limited access to
machines in production).
If someone has a spare ( ;-) ) P4: have a look at my wantlist entry...
Bye,
Alexander.
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