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| author | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> | 2012-11-02 14:20:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-01-25 08:23:50 (GMT) |
| commit | f317820cb6ee3fb173319bf76e0e62437be78ad2 (patch) | |
| tree | fc57358da4ba9f11a8d80e508d01e99c2c62c1f9 /arch/x86/include/asm/xor_64.h | |
| parent | e8f6e3f8a14bae98197c6d9f280cd23d22eb1a33 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f317820cb6ee3fb173319bf76e0e62437be78ad2.tar.xz | |
x86/xor: Add alternative SSE implementation only prefetching once per 64-byte line
On CPUs with 64-byte last level cache lines, this yields roughly
10% better performance, independent of CPU vendor or specific
model (as far as I was able to test).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5093E4B802000078000A615E@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/xor_64.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/xor_64.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/xor_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/xor_64.h index 1baf89d..546f1e3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/xor_64.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/xor_64.h @@ -13,17 +13,15 @@ static struct xor_block_template xor_block_sse = { /* Also try the AVX routines */ #include <asm/xor_avx.h> +/* We force the use of the SSE xor block because it can write around L2. + We may also be able to load into the L1 only depending on how the cpu + deals with a load to a line that is being prefetched. */ #undef XOR_TRY_TEMPLATES #define XOR_TRY_TEMPLATES \ do { \ AVX_XOR_SPEED; \ + xor_speed(&xor_block_sse_pf64); \ xor_speed(&xor_block_sse); \ } while (0) -/* We force the use of the SSE xor block because it can write around L2. - We may also be able to load into the L1 only depending on how the cpu - deals with a load to a line that is being prefetched. */ -#define XOR_SELECT_TEMPLATE(FASTEST) \ - AVX_SELECT(&xor_block_sse) - #endif /* _ASM_X86_XOR_64_H */ |