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authorRichard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>2016-08-29 11:46:17 -0700
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2016-09-13 19:13:32 +0200
commit083d012a388e7e2a8bfd9144c2c9bcceb29a78fc (patch)
treef9f373d968fa12484fbdfb8f7d1c4f408ca370ae /util
parent86444f084b23c967d556039b22a67d80a72725ca (diff)
downloadqemu-083d012a388e7e2a8bfd9144c2c9bcceb29a78fc.tar.gz
cutils: Add generic prefetch
There's no real knowledge of the cacheline size, just prefetching one loop ahead. Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Message-Id: <1472496380-19706-7-git-send-email-rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'util')
-rw-r--r--util/bufferiszero.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/util/bufferiszero.c b/util/bufferiszero.c
index bafd3d159c..abe65f9d88 100644
--- a/util/bufferiszero.c
+++ b/util/bufferiszero.c
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ static bool NAME(const void *buf, size_t len) \
do { \
const VECTYPE *p = buf; \
VECTYPE t; \
+ __builtin_prefetch(buf + SIZE); \
+ barrier(); \
if (SIZE == sizeof(VECTYPE) * 4) { \
t = (p[0] | p[1]) | (p[2] | p[3]); \
} else if (SIZE == sizeof(VECTYPE) * 8) { \
@@ -219,6 +221,9 @@ bool buffer_is_zero(const void *buf, size_t len)
return true;
}
+ /* Fetch the beginning of the buffer while we select the accelerator. */
+ __builtin_prefetch(buf);
+
/* Use an optimized zero check if possible. Note that this also
includes a check for an unrolled loop over 64-bit integers. */
return select_accel_fn(buf, len);