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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: ling.ma.program@gmail.com
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	neleai@seznam.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ling Ma <ling.ml@alibaba-inc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86:Improve memset with general 64bit instruction
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 09:42:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g71jdl8.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396882237-27608-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@alipay.com> (ling ma program's message of "Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:50:37 -0400")

ling.ma.program@gmail.com writes:

> From: Ling Ma <ling.ml@alibaba-inc.com>
>
> In this patch we manage to reduce miss branch prediction by 
> avoiding using branch instructions and force destination to be aligned
> with general 64bit instruction. 
> Below compared results shows we improve performance up to 1.8x
> (We modified test suit from Ondra, send after this patch)

You didn't specify the CPU?

I assume it's some Atom, as nothing else uses these open coded functions
anymore?

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-07 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-07 14:50 [PATCH RFC] x86:Improve memset with general 64bit instruction ling.ma.program
2014-04-07 14:52 ` Ling Ma
2014-04-07 16:42 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-04-08 14:00   ` Ling Ma
2014-04-13 15:11     ` Ling Ma
2014-04-13 22:03       ` Andi Kleen
2014-04-14 13:31         ` Ling Ma
2014-04-15  5:01           ` Andi Kleen

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