Re: Why ssse3?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential.
>>
>> It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4
> 
> OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed.  According to
> Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses "pni".  Too bad.

Intel has a nasty habit of renaming things after they are already
deployed in Linux.

	-hpa
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