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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: wei.guo.simon@gmail.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	"Naveen N.  Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] powerpc/64: enhance memcmp() with VMX instruction for long bytes comparision
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 06:05:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180528110558.GZ17342@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1527221256-17029-3-git-send-email-wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:07:34PM +0800, wei.guo.simon@gmail.com wrote:
> +	/* save and restore cr0 */
> +	mfocrf  r5,64
> +	EXIT_VMX_OPS
> +	mtocrf	64,r5
> +	b	.LcmpAB_lightweight

That's cr1, not cr0.  You can use mcrf instead, it is cheaper (esp. if
you have it in a non-volatile CR field before so you need only one, if any).

> +	vcmpequb.  v7,v9,v10
> +	bnl	cr6,.Ldiffoffset_vmx_diff_found

In other places you say  bf 24,...  Dunno which is more readable, but
please pick one?


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-28 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-25  4:07 [PATCH v6 0/4] powerpc/64: memcmp() optimization wei.guo.simon
2018-05-25  4:07 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] powerpc/64: Align bytes before fall back to .Lshort in powerpc64 memcmp() wei.guo.simon
2018-05-28 10:35   ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-05-30  8:11     ` Simon Guo
2018-05-30  8:27       ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-05-30  9:02         ` Simon Guo
2018-05-25  4:07 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] powerpc/64: enhance memcmp() with VMX instruction for long bytes comparision wei.guo.simon
2018-05-28 11:05   ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2018-05-30  8:14     ` Simon Guo
2018-05-30  8:35       ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-05-30  9:03         ` Simon Guo
2018-06-06  6:42           ` Simon Guo
2018-06-06 20:00             ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-05-28 11:59   ` Michael Ellerman
2018-05-30  8:15     ` Simon Guo
2018-05-25  4:07 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] powerpc/64: add 32 bytes prechecking before using VMX optimization on memcmp() wei.guo.simon
2018-05-25  4:07 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] powerpc:selftest update memcmp_64 selftest for VMX implementation wei.guo.simon

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