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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] reciprocal_divide: correction/update of the algorithm

On 01/14/2014 06:25 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:45:37PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Even on a Jaguar, the proposed alternative
> I don't know what Jaguar you guys are talking about but the Jaguar
> I know - Fam16h - has an int hardware divider:
>
> http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/SOG_16h_52128_PUB_Rev1_1.pdf
>
> So all that talk about microcode is plain wrong. The hardware divider
> comes from Llano (F12h) so it must be some other Jaguar, maybe Bobcat.
>
> :-)
>
> If it is Bobcat, then it has a 1-bit per cycle ucode int divider.
>
Apologies, it does have a hardware divider, however it still only gets 2
bits per cycle.


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