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

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 12:08 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> 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.

You can't, but it lets you use additional registers as carry flags.
Whether there are enough registers and enough parallelism to cancel out
the extra additions required, I don't know.

Ben.

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