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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:49:23 +0000 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@...il.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:18:06 +0100 Matteo Croce <technoboy85@...il.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:44 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote: > > On 11/06/2009 06:59 AM, Matteo Croce wrote: > >> indeed it has MMX, MMXEXT and CMOV, just lacks the long NOP instruction (NOPL). > > > > MMX and MMXEXT are hardly hallmarks of i686, which leaves only cmov. cmov is not i686 either. Its an optional extension that *should* only be used after you test its available. So gcc "i686" isn't quite "686". There are of course good reasons for that choice. > yes, I did some test like gzip, bzip2, lame etc and they give more or less > the same results of dhrystone How does that compare to i486. Certainly the old Nat Semi geode seemed to prefer to be fed i486 code to i586 (and wouldn't of course hack i686). You might also want to play around with -mtune= as well as arch= before assuming why i686 is a win (I still btw think the patch is a good idea, it simplifies life enormously for users with the CPU) Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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