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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/21] fix ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
Date: 11 Aug 2002 11:53:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73u1m1iuwe.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrew Morton's message of "11 Aug 2002 10:02:40 +0200"

Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> writes:

> Which needs a working ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH to avoid probable extra code
> generation on CPUs which don't have prefetch.

When you use gcc 3.1+ you can use __builtin_prefetch() and gcc takes care of
it. See asm-x86_64/prefetch.h of a working example.

Of course generic C code should not use the ugly builtins directly, but
it could be used to define the wrappers.

-Andi

       reply	other threads:[~2002-08-11  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3D56147E.15E7A98@zip.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-08-11  9:53 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-08-11  7:38 [patch 4/21] fix ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH Andrew Morton
2002-08-11 19:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-11 18:47   ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-11 18:46     ` Larry McVoy
2002-08-11 19:06     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 21:42     ` Adrian Bunk
2002-08-13 22:12       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 22:22         ` Adrian Bunk
2002-08-13 22:42           ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-14 17:40         ` Rogier Wolff
2002-08-14 19:41           ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-14 19:57             ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-14 22:03               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-14 20:45             ` Willy Tarreau
2002-08-14 20:58               ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-14 21:11                 ` Willy Tarreau
2002-08-14 21:13                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-15  1:23                 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-15  1:28                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-15  1:37                     ` Alan Cox
2002-08-14 22:53               ` David Lang
2002-08-14 23:31                 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-15  6:44                 ` Willy Tarreau
2002-08-15  6:55                   ` H. Peter Anvin

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