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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: Run checksumming in parallel accross multiple alu's
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On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 15:58 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:45:29PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 13:37 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> >
> > > I think it would be better if we just did the prefetch here
> > > and re-addressed this area when AVX (or addcx/addox) instructions were available
> > > for testing on hardware.
> >
> > Could there be a difference if only a single software
> > prefetch was done at the beginning of transfer before
> > the while loop and hardware prefetches did the rest?
> >
> I wouldn't think so. If hardware was going to do any prefetching based on
> memory access patterns it will do so regardless of the leading prefetch, and
> that first prefetch isn't helpful because we still wind up stalling on the adds
> while its completing

I imagine one benefit to be helping prevent
prefetching beyond the actual data required.

Maybe some hardware optimizes prefetch stride
better than 5*64.

I wonder also if using

if (count > some_length)
prefetch
while (...)

helps small lengths more than the test/jump cost.



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