Hi,

This is being tracked in bugid 6291299 [1].

- Fintan

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:30:42PM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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< Hi,
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< I have noticed that the amd64 version of kcopy() uses the same "rep smov" 
< the i386 version use.
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< The AMD's "Opteron Optimization Guide" states that it is a wrong decision:
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< see the chapters:
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< 5.12 Appropriate Memory Copying Routines
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< 8.3 Repeated String Instructions
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< As far as I can tell kcopy() is the function kernel spends considerable 
< time in.
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< thanks,
< Alexander
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