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Date:      Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:11:29 -0600
From:      "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c initcpu.c locore.s
Message-ID:  <3E3CC4A1.BBFD203A@imimic.com>
References:  <20030125021907.51B482A89E@canning.wemm.org> <3E32F7C2.C251040@imimic.com> <14020000.1044124868@aslan.scsiguy.com>

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"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone here know what needs to be done in terms of saving and
> > restoring SSE/SSE2 state in order to use non-temporal, i.e., not-cached,
> > stores in the idle time page zeroing code?
> 
> I don't know if he used SSE/SSE2 or not, but thorpej modified NetBSD's
> page zeroing code to avoid touching the cache well over a year ago.
> You might look at what they are doing.
> 

I just looked at a NetBSD's sys/arch/i386/i386/pmap.c. 
pmap_pageidlezero() didn't use SSE/SSE2.  Am I looking in the wrong
place?

Alan

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