* Steve Kargl (s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) wrote:

> Can you explain?  AFAIK, SSE including floating point
> instructions.  Floating point operations aren't allowed
> in the kernel.

Afaik, there are also effecient memory copy/move/fill instructions,
that do not require floating point context. For example, movnti is
used in sse2_pagezero().

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