Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 May 2005 12:11:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | dean gaudet <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86-64: Use SSE for copy_page and clear_page |
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On Mon, 30 May 2005, dean gaudet wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2005, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > > Below is a patch that uses 128 bit SSE instructions for copy_page and > > clear_page. This is an improvement on P4 systems as can be seen by > > running the test program at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/xmm64.c to get > > results like: > > it looks like the patch uses SSE2 instructions (pxor, movdqa, movntdq)... > if you use xorps, movaps, movntps then it works on SSE processors as well.
oh and btw... on x86-64 you might want to look at using movnti with 64-bit registers... the memory datapath on these processors is actually 64-bits wide, and the 128-bit stores are broken into two 64-bit pieces internally anyhow. the advantage of using movnti over movntdq/movntps is that you don't have to save/restore the xmm register set.
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