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From: Tim Walberg <tewalberg@mediaone.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A question about MMX.
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:25:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010421082514.H20020@mediaone.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104211353450.14048-100000@ns1.aniela.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104211353450.14048-100000@ns1.aniela.eu.org> from lk@aniela.eu.org on 04/21/2001 05:55

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MMX **is** potentially used in the md (RAID-5) code for parity
calculation, IIRC, though. That's about the only place that I
can think of that it's used, but I don't claim to know the
inner workings of the entire kernel, either...

			tw


On 04/21/2001 13:55 +0300, lk@aniela.eu.org wrote:
>>	
>>	I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver,
>>	ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are
>>	used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.).
>>	
>>	
>>	Thank you,
>>	
>>	/me
>>	
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-21 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-21 10:55 lk
2001-04-21 11:44 ` Rasmus Bøg Hansen
2001-04-21 11:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-21 12:59   ` lk
2001-04-21 13:25 ` Tim Walberg [this message]

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