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Hello Ali,

Which benchmarks should one use to test the implementation of these
instructions?

Either I or Vidya Sangkar, a labmate of mine, can work on it. But it
has to be after Nov 17th. Is that timeline is ok?

regards,
Soumyaroop

On 10/29/09, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  ctlz and cttz are available and unless you're doing something crazy I don't
>  think ctpop would be emitted. MVI isn't an instruction but a class of
>  instructions. See
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha#Motion_Video_Instructions_.28MVI.29
>
>  At this point we've probably spent as much time discussing them as it would
>  have taken to implement them.
>
>  Ali
>
>  On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:55:34 -0400, soumyaroop roy <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
>  > One has to supply the flag, "-mno-cix", during compilation to make
>  > sure that the CIX instructions ("ctlz", "cttz", and "ctpop") are not
>  > emitted in the code.
>  >
>  > Here is the list of default flags passed (excerpt from
>  > "alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu -v -Q  dummy.c"):
>  >
>  > options passed:  -v dummy.c -mcpu=ev67 -mtune=ev67
>  > options enabled:  -falign-loops -fargument-alias -fauto-inc-dec
>  >  -fbranch-count-reg -fcommon -fearly-inlining
>  >  -feliminate-unused-debug-types -ffunction-cse -fgcse-lm -fident -fivopts
>  >  -fkeep-static-consts -fleading-underscore -fmath-errno
>  >  -fmerge-debug-strings -fmove-loop-invariants -fpcc-struct-return
>  >  -fpeephole -fsched-interblock -fsched-spec -fsched-stalled-insns-dep
>  >  -fsigned-zeros -fsplit-ivs-in-unroller -ftoplevel-reorder
>  -ftrapping-math
>  >  -ftree-cselim -ftree-loop-im -ftree-loop-ivcanon -ftree-loop-optimize
>  >  -ftree-parallelize-loops= -ftree-reassoc -ftree-scev-cprop
>  >  -ftree-vect-loop-version -fvar-tracking -fzero-initialized-in-bss -mbwx
>  >  -mcix -mexplicit-relocs -mfix -mfloat-ieee -mfp-regs -mglibc
>  -mlarge-data
>  >  -mlarge-text -mlong-double-128 -mmax
>  >
>  > Note the "-mcix" on the second last line above.
>  >
>  > I could not find anything about the MVI instruction.
>  >
>  > regards,
>  > Soumyaroop
>  >
>  > On 10/29/09, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>  I've put a link on the d/l page. The file is downloading to m5sim.org
>  >>  right
>  >>  now and should be available within 5 minutes.
>  >>
>  >>  Ali
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:27:11 -0400, soumyaroop roy <[email protected]>
>  >>
>  >> wrote:
>  >>  > Nate,
>  >>  >
>  >>  > It is available for download here (33 MB):
>  >>  >
>  >>
>  
> http://72.187.222.34/~sroy/m5_tests/alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu-x86-32.tar.bz2
>  >>  >
>  >>  > -Soumyaroop
>  >>  >
>  >>  > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:12 PM, soumyaroop roy <[email protected]>
>  >>  > wrote:
>  >>  >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:04 PM, nathan binkert <[email protected]>
>  >>  wrote:
>  >>  >>>>>> My estimate is that the tar-zipped file should between 250-300
>  >>  >>>>>> MB.
>  >>  >>>>> No problem.
>  >>  >>>>
>  >>  >>>> Let me host it somewhere and send you the link so that you may
>  >>  download
>  >>  >>>> it.
>  >>  >>> Sure.  Once I get it on the m5 site, you can add the link.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >> Is there a way for me to upload it on the M5 wiki directly? Is that
>  >>  >> what you were implying all along that I should do?
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>>
>  >>  >>>> Do you mean providing the link though the wiki? I do not have
>  >>  >>>> permissions to edit this page,
>  >>  >>>> http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Download, which has links to
>  >>  >>>> the
>  >>  >>>> cross-compilers.
>  >>  >>>
>  >>  >>> You should be able to, but you have to create an account.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >> I already have an account. But it says:
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >> You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following
>  >>  >> reason:
>  >>  >> This page has been locked to prevent editing.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >> You can view and copy the source of this page:
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>>
>  >>  >>>  Nate
>  >>  >>> _______________________________________________
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>  >>  >>>
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >> -Soumyaroop
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >> --
>  >>  >> Soumyaroop Roy
>  >>  >> Ph.D. Candidate
>  >>  >> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
>  >>  >> University of South Florida, Tampa
>  >>  >> http://www.csee.usf.edu/~sroy
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Soumyaroop Roy
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida, Tampa
http://www.csee.usf.edu/~sroy
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