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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: add prefetching to do_csum
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 08:51:07AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 11:25 -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:07:38PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 15:02 -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:19:23AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > []
> > > > > __always_inline instead of inline
> > > > > static __always_inline void prefetch_lines(const void *addr, size_t len)
> > > > > {
> > > > > const void *end = addr + len;
> > > > > ...
> > > > >
> > > > > buff doesn't need a void * cast in prefetch_lines
> > > > >
> > > > Actually I take back what I said here, we do need the cast, not for a conversion
> > > > from unsigned char * to void *, but rather to discard the const qualifier
> > > > without making the compiler complain.
> > >
> > > Not if the function is changed to const void *
> > > and end is also const void * as shown.
> > >
> > Addr is incremented in the for loop, so it can't be const. I could add a loop
> > counter variable on the stack, but that doesn't seem like it would help anything
>
> Perhaps you meant
> void * const addr;
> but that's not what I wrote.
>
No, I meant smoething like:
static __always_inline void prefetch_lines(const void * addr, size_t len)
{
const void *tmp = (void *)addr;
...
for(;tmp<end; tmp+=cache_line_size())
...
}

> Let me know if this doesn't compile.
> It does here...
Huh, it does. But that makes very little sense to me. by qualifying addr as
const, how is the compiler not throwing a warning in the for loop about us
incrementing that same variable?




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