Re: [PATCH] x86: Run checksumming in parallel accross multiple alu's

[Neil Horman]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:42:46PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 14:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> [...]
> > It
> > functions, but unfortunately the performance lost to the completely broken
> > branch prediction that this inflicts makes it a non starter:
> [...]
> 
> Conditional branches are no good but conditional moves might be worth a shot.
> 
> Ben.
> 
How would you suggest replacing the jumps in this case?  I agree it would be
faster here, but I'm not sure how I would implement an increment using a single
conditional move.
Neil

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