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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.21 review I] [21/25] x86_64: a memcpy that tries to reduce cache pressure
Andi Kleen a écrit :
> From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
>
> This copy routine is memcpy-compatible, but on some architectures will use
> cache-bypassing loads to avoid bringing the source data into the cache.
>
> One case where this is useful is when a device issues a DMA to a memory
> region, and the CPU must copy the DMAed data elsewhere before doing any work
> with it. Since the source data is read-once, write-never from the CPU's
> perspective, caching the data at those addresses can only evict potentially
> useful data.
>
> We provide an x86_64 implementation that uses SSE non-temporal loads, and a
> generic version that falls back to plain memcpy.

> + movq %r11, 56(%rdi)
> + addq %rcx, %rdi
> + cmpq %rdx, %rcx /* is rdx >= 64? */
> + jbe .L42
> + sfence
> + orl %edx, %edx
> + je .L33

I have three questions/remarks

1) Just curious why sfence is necessary here ?

2) Shouldnt we use this for large buffers, and restrict them to a size
multiple of 64, to avoid all these conditional branches ?

3) Also, the first 128 bytes of the source buffer will be bring into cache.

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