Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:41:14 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: SSE related security hole |
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> Besides, I seriously doubt it is any faster than what is there already. > > Time it, and notice how: > > - fninit takes about 200 cycles > - fxrstor takes about 215 cycles
On what CPU?
I checked the Athlon4 optimization manual and fxrstor is listed as 68/108 cycles (i guess depending on whether there is XMM state or not so 68 cycles probably apply here) and fninit as 91 cycles. It doesn't list the SSE1 timings, but i guess the instructions don't take more than 3 cycles (MMX instructions take that long). So Andrea's way should be 91+16*3=139+some cycles for emms (or 107 if sse ops take only a single cycle) vs 68 or 108. So the fxrstor wins well.
On x86-64 the difference is even bigger because it has 16 XMM registers instead of 8.
> In short, your "fast" code isn't actually any faster than doing it right.
At least on Athlon it should be slower.
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