On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> Anyone yet verified if burnMMX2 causes the same failures the
> athlon-optimized kernel does?
several versions of Robert's burnMMX2 run on by problematic athlons
without failing for several hours.
I did some trial and error modifications to mmx.c and found out
that this one makes my athlons happy (but must admin i have
no clue why). it seems to run stable now.
--- linux-2.4.9/arch/i386/lib/mmx.c Tue May 22 19:23:16 2001
+++ linux-2.4.9-ac6-hack/arch/i386/lib/mmx.c Sat Sep 8 00:51:33 2001
@@ -194,6 +194,9 @@
: : "r" (from), "r" (to) : "memory");
from+=64;
to+=64;
+ __asm__ __volatile__ (
+ " sfence \n" : :
+ );
}
for(i=(4096-320)/64; i<4096/64; i++)
{
maybe someone with more knowledge can take a look..
ciao,
heinz
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