Using lswi/stswi inside the kernel

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jul 15 06:48:26 EST 2005


> Yes, not all PowerPC implementations actually implement this 
> instructions.  Also, on a number of them there is no performance 
> improvement when using the instructions.

Read: severe performance degradation ;-)


Segher




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