--- "Davis, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Canqun, > > Nice job getting this ready for the current version of gcc! > > Question: does gcc now know the difference between prefetching to cache L1 > via "lfetch", as > opposed to prefetching only to level L2 via "lfetch.nt1"? For floating point > data, the latter > is the only interesting case because float loads only access the L2. Thus > using "lfetch" for > floating point arrays will unnecessarily wipe out the contents of L1. (gcc > 3.2.3 only seems to > generate "lfetch", which is why I ask...) >
Yes, GCC does. I have tried this on the old prefetch implementation at RTL level and the new one at TREE level, but no significant performance difference for SPECfp2000 and NAS benchmarks. Nevertheless, it worth taking more time to inspect it. Canqun Yang > Thanks, > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Canqun Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 5:14 AM > To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [patch] Improve loop array prefetch for IA-64 > > Hi, all > > This patch results a performance increase of 4% for SPECfp2000 and 13% for > NAS benchmark suite > on > Itanium-2 system, respectively. More performance increase is hopeful by > further tuning the > parameters and improving the prefetch algorithm at tree level. > > > Canqun Yang > > __________________________________________________ 赶快注册雅虎超大容量免费邮箱? http://cn.mail.yahoo.com
