Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Mar 1998 21:39:01 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86, small syscall entry speedup, 2.1.90 |
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On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Mingo, > > Well, Linus may not like the movb syntax, but I for one am glad people > are paying attention to bumming cycles out of frequently used code > paths... > > - Ted > Can you really load a segment register with a byte move? My Intel documentation doesn't say it's possible. Further, even if allowed, does it really do this? I don't think so.
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