Re: [PATCH] x86: Run checksumming in parallel accross multiple alu's

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Nov 01 2013 - 11:42:59 EST


On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 14:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
[...]
> It
> functions, but unfortunately the performance lost to the completely broken
> branch prediction that this inflicts makes it a non starter:
[...]

Conditional branches are no good but conditional moves might be worth a shot.

Ben.

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