Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Use GCC __builtin_prefetch() to implement prefetch().

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Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Use GCC __builtin_prefetch() to implement prefetch().

To:	David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject:	Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Use GCC __builtin_prefetch() to implement prefetch().
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date:	Fri, 21 May 2010 19:05:59 +0100
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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:44:18PM -0700, David Daney wrote:

> GCC's __builtin_prefetch() was introduced a long time ago, all
> supported GCC versions have it.  Lets do what the big boys up in
> linux/prefetch.h do, except we use '1' as the third parameter to
> provoke 'PREF 0,...'  and 'PREF 1,...' instead of other prefetch
> hints.
> 
> This allows for better code generation.  In theory the existing
> embedded asm could be optimized, but the compiler has these builtins,
> so there is really no point.

Applied, thanks.

  Ralf

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