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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: add SSE-based copy_page()

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Dexuan Cui" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx>, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: add SSE-based copy_page()
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:31:09 +0000
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>>> Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> 13.01.09 00:29 >>>
>I'm guessing the gcc optimizer for the memcpy code was tuned
>for an Intel pipeline... Jan, were you measuring on an
>AMD processor?

Oh, actually my previous reply was without pushing my thinking fully back
to what I was doing (and measuring) back then. I really measured on quad
core Xeons, as what I was looking at were the highmem helpers. Pretty
likely this almost exclusively covered the cold cache (all levels) case, but I
also think this is the most likely scenario.

Jan


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