On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:18:55AM +0200, Pau Aliagas wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, H. J. Lu wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:57:28AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >>>There is no such an instruction of "movl %ds,(%eax)". The old assembler > >>>accepts it and turns it into "movw %ds,(%eax)". > >> > >>I disagree. Violently. As does the old assembler, which does not turn > >>"mov" into "movw" as you say. AT ALL. > > > >I should have made myself clear. By "movw %ds,(%eax)", I meant: > > > > 8c 18 movw %ds,(%eax) > > > >That is what the assembler generates, and should have generated, for > >"movw %ds,(%eax)" since Nov. 4, 2004. > > Could this be the reason for the reported slowdown in the last six months? > Can you elaborate? H.J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] 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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