Re: [PATCH] x86: Add optimized popcnt variants

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/23/2010 11:06 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> Ok, here you go.
> 
> --
> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:48:31 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: Add optimized popcnt variants
> 
> Add support for the hardware version of the Hamming weight function,
> popcnt, present in CPUs which advertize it under CPUID, Function
> 0x0000_0001_ECX[23]. On CPUs which don't support it, we fallback to the
> default lib/hweight.c sw versions.
> 
> A synthetic benchmark comparing popcnt with __sw_hweight64 showed almost
> a 3x speedup on a F10h machine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>

OK, this patch looks pretty good now, but I'm completely lost as to what
the baseline of this patch is supposed to be.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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