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DateWed, 12 Dec 2007 11:25:52 -0800
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: [RFT] Port 0x80 I/O speed
Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:31:18AM +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
>> 	asm volatile ("rdtsc": "=A" (tsc));
> 
> rdtsc returns a 64-bit value in two 32-bit regs, you need to do
> 
> inline unsigned long long rdtsc(void)
> {
> 	unsigned int lo, hi;
> 	asm volatile ("rdtsc": "=a" (lo), "=d" (hi));
> 	return (unsigned long long)hi << 32 | lo;
> }
> 
> as in msr.h, otherwise you'll only be looking at the value in %rax.
> 

"=A" works on 32-bit systems (only), obviously, and gcc will generally 
produce slightly better code as a result (gcc could really use a 
register renaming/copy propagation step *after* multi-register entities 
are broken apart, at least on architectures which don't have register 
pairs as a hardware constraint.)

	-hpa


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