FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow
Jung-uk Kim
jkim at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 18 14:54:13 PST 2009
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 03:44 pm, Kailash Kailash wrote:
> I am using FreeBSD 7.0 in 64 BIT mode. Same code compiled on BSD
> 7.0 runs 50% speed (as expected by CPU and code architecture)
> compared to BSD 6.2. Here is one real code with binary output. On
> 3.0 GHz Woodcrest processor, I am able to copy from one cache to
> another cache at the speed of 24Gbytes/second verses 12
> Gbytes/second. Any help is appreciated.
You may try "-fno-ivopts". I think the bug is:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27440
Jung-uk Kim
> Thanks,
>
> Kailash
>
>
>
> Source-code:
>
> #define BACKWARD_MEMCOPY_WITH_TYPE(dp, sp, len, type)
> BACKWARD_MEMCOPY((type*)(dp), (const type*)(sp),
> ((len)+(sizeof(type)-1))/sizeof(type))
>
>
>
> #define BACKWARD_MEMCOPY(dp, sp, len) \
>
> do { \
>
> smwbits __len = len; /* must be signed value */
> \
>
> while (--__len >= 0) \
>
> (dp)[__len] = (sp)[__len]; \
>
> } while (0)
>
>
>
> BSD 6.2 code
>
> 0x00000000004353b2 <smcli_memory_copy_performance+434>: mov
> 0x8(%rbp,%rdx,8),%rax
>
> 0x00000000004353b7 <smcli_memory_copy_performance+439>: mov
> %rax,0x48(%r12,%rdx,8)
>
> 0x00000000004353bc <smcli_memory_copy_performance+444>: dec %rdx
>
> 0x00000000004353bf <smcli_memory_copy_performance+447>: jns
> 0x4353b2 <smcli_memory_copy_performance+434>
>
>
>
> BSD 7.0 code
>
> 0x000000000040cb80 <smcli_memory_copy_performance+272>: mov
> 0xfffffffffffffff8(%rsi),%rax
>
> 0x000000000040cb84 <smcli_memory_copy_performance+276>: mov
> %rax,0xfffffffffffffff8(%rcx)
>
> 0x000000000040cb88 <smcli_memory_copy_performance+280>: sub
> $0x8,%rsi
>
> 0x000000000040cb8c <smcli_memory_copy_performance+284>: sub
> $0x8,%rcx
>
> 0x000000000040cb90 <smcli_memory_copy_performance+288>: sub
> $0x1,%rdx
>
> 0x000000000040cb94 <smcli_memory_copy_performance+292>: jns
> 0x40cb80 <smcli_memory_copy_performance2+272>
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