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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Nov 01 2013 - 15:45:38 EST


On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 13:37 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:

> I think it would be better if we just did the prefetch here
> and re-addressed this area when AVX (or addcx/addox) instructions were available
> for testing on hardware.

Could there be a difference if only a single software
prefetch was done at the beginning of transfer before
the while loop and hardware prefetches did the rest?



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