From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: lk@aniela.eu.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A question about MMX.
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:59:07 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14qw2g-0003WD-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104211353450.14048-100000@ns1.aniela.eu.org> from "lk@aniela.eu.org" at Apr 21, 2001 01:55:43 PM
> 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.).
In almost all cases - no. The MMX instructions are mostly not useful. A few
graphics operations benefit from them such as mpeg players but that is about
it.
On the AMD and Cyrix machines 3Dnow is used extensively by Mesa (3D) and by
many of the mp3 players. The winchip and athlon kernels also use mmx for
block copies but this isnt a win in the pentium case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-21 11:59 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 [this message]
2001-04-21 12:59 ` lk
2001-04-21 13:25 ` Tim Walberg
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