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Subject[PATCH] Extra memory prefetch in mmx.c
Hi,

Looking at arch/i386/lib/mmx.c I see that MMX fast_copy_page()
makes extra prefetches past the end of source page.
This is harmless but wastes CPU cycles and pollutes cache.
Pls find a patch below.
Diffed against 2.4.9.

If you want to test it, be sure to disable K7 optimization
or else this code will be ifdef'ed out :-)
--
Best regards, VDA
mailto:VDA@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
http://port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua/vda/

--- mmx.c.orig Tue May 22 15:23:16 2001
+++ mmx.c Tue Sep 18 16:51:50 2001
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
".previous"
: : "r" (from) );

- for(i=0; i<4096/64; i++)
+ for(i=0; i<(4096-320)/64; i++)
{
__asm__ __volatile__ (
"1: prefetch 320(%0)\n"
@@ -321,6 +321,29 @@
" .align 4\n"
" .long 1b, 3b\n"
".previous"
+ : : "r" (from), "r" (to) : "memory");
+ from+=64;
+ to+=64;
+ }
+ for(i=(4096-320)/64; i<4096/64; i++)
+ {
+ __asm__ __volatile__ (
+ "2: movq (%0), %%mm0\n"
+ " movq 8(%0), %%mm1\n"
+ " movq 16(%0), %%mm2\n"
+ " movq 24(%0), %%mm3\n"
+ " movq %%mm0, (%1)\n"
+ " movq %%mm1, 8(%1)\n"
+ " movq %%mm2, 16(%1)\n"
+ " movq %%mm3, 24(%1)\n"
+ " movq 32(%0), %%mm0\n"
+ " movq 40(%0), %%mm1\n"
+ " movq 48(%0), %%mm2\n"
+ " movq 56(%0), %%mm3\n"
+ " movq %%mm0, 32(%1)\n"
+ " movq %%mm1, 40(%1)\n"
+ " movq %%mm2, 48(%1)\n"
+ " movq %%mm3, 56(%1)\n"
: : "r" (from), "r" (to) : "memory");
from+=64;
to+=64;

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