Review Request: 3DNow Prefetch Instruction Support
Deneau, Tom
tom.deneau at amd.com
Mon Apr 11 09:12:00 PDT 2011
Hi all,
Please review this patch which changes the logic for detecting whether or not a processor supports the 3dnow prefetchw and prefetch instructions. A separate CPUID bit (defined in about 2007) allows a processor to support 3dnow prefetch instructions without supporting the whole 3dnow instruction set. The upcoming processors from AMD are the first that support 3dnow prefetch without supporting the 3dnow instruction set.
The webrev is at
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tdeneau/3dnow-cpuid/webrev.01/
The logic change is really one small change in src/cpu/x86/vm/vm_version_x86.hpp but to clarify things I changed a function name from supports_3dnow() to supports_3dnow_prefetch() which is really what was meant all along. This was the reason the other files changed. I did not make any change in src/cpu/x86/vm/x86_64.ad since that was not checking for 3dnow support.
I do not have a bug id for this.
-- Tom Deneau, AMD
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