Linux Sparc V9 code optimazation

2001-06-29 Thread Ramil . Santamaria

To any Sparc guru,

This question relates to the effect of instruction alignment on a Sparc's
Prefetch/Dispatch unit.

Just how exactly does the branch prediction bits for instruction pairs in
the I-Cache utilized.

I'm trying to figure out the consequences of an odd word fetch into an
Instruction cache line with a the fourth
instruction being another branch.

Please cc me as I am currently not on the mailing list.

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Linux Sparc V9 code optimazation

2001-06-29 Thread Ramil . Santamaria

To any Sparc guru,

This question relates to the effect of instruction alignment on a Sparc's
Prefetch/Dispatch unit.

Just how exactly does the branch prediction bits for instruction pairs in
the I-Cache utilized.

I'm trying to figure out the consequences of an odd word fetch into an
Instruction cache line with a the fourth
instruction being another branch.

Please cc me as I am currently not on the mailing list.

Ramil J.Santamaria
Toshiba America Information Systems
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(949) 206-3439 - fax
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Buddy System bitmaps

2001-06-14 Thread Ramil . Santamaria

Hi,

For this scenario consider a set of 4 page frames.
Frames 0 and 2 are used while frames 1 and 3 are free.

The question is would the bitmap for order 1 be a 1 or 0 for this scenario.

I am not on the list so please cc me on your response.

Thanks in advance.

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Buddy System bitmaps

2001-06-14 Thread Ramil . Santamaria

Hi,

For this scenario consider a set of 4 page frames.
Frames 0 and 2 are used while frames 1 and 3 are free.

The question is would the bitmap for order 1 be a 1 or 0 for this scenario.

I am not on the list so please cc me on your response.

Thanks in advance.

Ramil J.Santamaria
Toshiba America Information Systems
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(949) 206-3439 - fax
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No Subject

2001-05-31 Thread Ramil . Santamaria

Minor issue with bootsect.s.

The single instance of the lds assembly instruction includes the comment of
!  ds:si is source
...
seg fs
lds  si,(bx)! ds:si is source
...
Is this comment not in reverse order (i.e should be lds
dest,src)


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No Subject

2001-05-31 Thread Ramil . Santamaria

Minor issue with bootsect.s.

The single instance of the lds assembly instruction includes the comment of
!  ds:si is source
...
seg fs
lds  si,(bx)! ds:si is source
...
Is this comment not in reverse order (i.e should be lds
dest,src)


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