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Re: ping bug

To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ping bug
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:17:42 +1200
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:44:17PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:

      Like others have noted, doing FP/MMX stuff in kernel needs saving, and
    restoring a rather massive state dump - preserving lazy-FPU-save/restore!
    If the cost of that work is worth the effort for the amount of FP/MMX
    instructions done for whatever purpose, then by all means, do it.

ping is a userland program

for softmodems, yes, making this all userland would be very nice,
better still death to all modems




  --cw

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