mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andreas Franck <afranck@gmx.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Athlon/3DNow write prefetch?
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:13:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01082320130001.21357@dg1kfa> (raw)

Hello people,

in looking at the prefetch code from include/asm-i386/processor.h on 
2.4.9-ac9, I have noticed that prefetchw seems not to be implemented right:

The Athlon/3DNow prefetchw() implementation uses the `prefetch' assembler 
instruction, which is in fact a read prefetch, while it should use the 
`prefetchw' instruction, which is for write prefetch.

Any comments on this?

Greetings,
Andreas

(Here the excerpt from the code...)

[...]

/* Prefetch instructions for Pentium III and AMD Athlon */
#ifdef  CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII
 
#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
extern inline void prefetch(const void *x)
{
        __asm__ __volatile__ ("prefetchnta (%0)" : : "r"(x));
}
 
#elif CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW
 
#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
#define ARCH_HAS_SPINLOCK_PREFETCH
 
extern inline void prefetch(const void *x)
{
         __asm__ __volatile__ ("prefetch (%0)" : : "r"(x));
}
 
extern inline void prefetchw(const void *x)
{
         __asm__ __volatile__ ("prefetch (%0)" : : "r"(x));
                                ^^^^^^^^ <- Shouldn't this be prefetchw ???
} 
#define spin_lock_prefetch(x)   prefetchw(x)
 
#endif


             reply	other threads:[~2001-08-23 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-23 18:13 Andreas Franck [this message]
2001-08-23 18:18 ` Alan Cox

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=01082320130001.21357@dg1kfa \
    --to=afranck@gmx.de \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®