[MPlayer-users] WTF is MTRR?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:11:31PM -0300, Bernardo Silveira wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I've searched the translations looking for things that could make
> MPlayer's performance flow better. I found something about MTRR.
> There it says it can give a great performance boost. I've read and
> executed the instructions. I'd like to know better how does it work
> and where it really gives better performance and when it just doesn't
> matter.

Always on any x86 beyond p5. However sometimes XF86 and/or fbcon will
setup MTRR's for you so you don't have to do anything else. If you
want to see the difference just compare with and without.

Rich