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Authored by mjg on Sep 22 2018, 11:45 AM.
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Summary
  • move the PSL.AC comment to the fault handler
  • stop testing for zero-sized ops. after several minutes of package building there were no copyin calls with zero bytes and very few copyout. the semantic of returning 0 in this case is preserved
  • shorten exit paths by clearing %eax earlier
  • replace xchg with 3 movs. this is what compilers do. a naive benchmark on EPYC suggests about 1% increase in thoughput thanks to this change.
  • remove the uselss movb %cl,%al from copyout. it looks like a leftover from many years ago

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movb is removed from copyin.

I am curious about the removal of xchg reg,reg.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 22 2018, 4:46 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.