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SubjectRe: Pentium SSE prefetcht0 instruction... How do you make it work
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On Thu, 2001-09-27 at 14:40, Bulent Abali wrote:
> //This should prefetch an L2 line at addr (hence L3 line prefetch)
> inline void L3_prefetch (char * addr)
> {
> asm volatile("prefetcht1 %0" :: "m" (addr));
> }

There are prefetch instructions already in the kernel.

See include/linux/prefetch.h
and linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h

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Robert M. Love
rml at ufl.edu
rml at tech9.net

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