Re: [PATCH] Add generic prefetch xor routines

[Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:01:34PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
 > 
 > Both PA-RISC and IA64 benefit from these generic prefetching routines.
 > Maybe other CPUs will too.
 > 
 > +	do {
 > +		prefetchw(p1+8);
 > +		prefetch(p2+8);
 > +		p1[0] ^= p2[0];
 > +		p1[1] ^= p2[1];
 > +		p1[2] ^= p2[2];
 > +		p1[3] ^= p2[3];
 > +		p1[4] ^= p2[4];
 > +		p1[5] ^= p2[5];
 > +		p1[6] ^= p2[6];
 > +		p1[7] ^= p2[7];
 > +		p1 += 8;
 > +		p2 += 8;
 > +	} while (--lines > 0);

Won't this prefetch past the end of the buffer ?
Some CPUs have problems with prefetching non-existant areas
of RAM iirc. (Which is why the memcpy routines do a prefetching
loop, and then a non prefetching loop to copy the tail).

		Dave

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