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From: Tom Vier <thomassr@erols.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: question about altivec registers
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:38:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991026183826.A6668@zero> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9910262020350.665-100000@callisto.of.borg>


On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 08:22:06PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Moving around blocks of 512 bytes quickly thrashes the L1 cache, unless the
> loads/stores are done using cache-bypassing instructions (cfr. MOVE16 on '040).
> Don't know whether PPC has these (still no PPC guru :-(

from what i've read, you can disable cache for the altivec regs. this was
intended for doing infrequent vector ops between frequent vectors ops
(loops) without distrubing the cache.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-10-26 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-25 20:51 question about altivec registers Jim Terman
1999-10-25 22:27 ` Claude Robitaille
1999-10-25 22:31   ` Jim Terman
1999-10-25 22:44     ` erik cameron
1999-10-25 23:28     ` Claude Robitaille
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910251916060.5902-100000@modemcable220.93-200-24.mtl.mc.vi deotron.net>
1999-10-25 23:53       ` Rob Barris
1999-10-26 18:22         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-10-26 22:13           ` Rob Barris
1999-10-26 22:38           ` Tom Vier [this message]
1999-10-26 22:03         ` Tom Vier
1999-10-26  4:42 ` Kumar Gala
1999-10-26 21:52   ` Jim Terman
1999-10-26 22:43     ` Kumar Gala
1999-10-27  8:58       ` Adrian Cox
1999-10-27 13:21         ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-10-27 16:05           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-10-27 18:23           ` Kumar Gala
1999-10-27 22:39           ` Tony Mantler
1999-10-28 11:01             ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-10-28 21:20               ` Tony Mantler
1999-10-29 11:58                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-10-29 12:49                 ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-10-30  4:14                   ` Tony Mantler

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