Calling movnti without sfence?
H.J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Wed Nov 7 14:46:00 GMT 2007
While working on improving x86-64 memset, I noticed that movnti
is called without sfence:
11:
movnti %r8,(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x8(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x10(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x18(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x20(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x28(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x30(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x38(%rcx)
add $0x40,%rcx
dec %rax
jne 11b
jmp 4b
Is that intentional? Shouldn't it be
11:
movnti %r8,(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x8(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x10(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x18(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x20(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x28(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x30(%rcx)
movnti %r8,0x38(%rcx)
add $0x40,%rcx
dec %rax
jne 11b
sfence
jmp 4b
H.J.
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