Re: Benchmark performance

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

> >>>>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:34:46 -0700 (PDT), Wayne Gowcher <wgowcher@yahoo.com> said:
> wgowcher> a 23 % reduction in the Floating Point Index benchmark
>
> Current CVS kernel uses FPU emulator unconditionally.  If one floating
> point intruction causes a 'Unimplemented' exception (denormalized
> result, etc.) following floating point instructions are also handle by
> FPU emulator (not only the instruction which raise the exception).

You got a point here, no need to emulate following floating point instructions, if one got
a real FPU.
But I think the check in the FP emulator should be a check if we got a real FPU, instead of
a counter.
We already has a flag for that in mips_cpu.options.
The check could be something like:

    if (mips_cpu.options & MIPS_CPU_FPU)
        break;



>
> I do not know this is really desired behavior, but here is a patch to
> change this.  If Unimplemented exception had been occured during the
> benchmark, aplying this patch may result better performance.
>
> ---
> Atsushi Nemoto
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