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...) 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
