Move prefetch() out of TT

This code is platform specific and has nothing to
do with TT class, so move to misc.cpp

This patch is a prerequisite to use extend prefetch use
also to other hash tables apart from Transposition Table.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
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Marco Costalba
2010-06-19 11:10:54 +01:00
parent 221f41c2df
commit 47ee6d9fa4
5 changed files with 40 additions and 43 deletions
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@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
#endif
#if !defined(NO_PREFETCH)
# include <xmmintrin.h>
#endif
#include <cassert>
#include <cstdio>
#include <iomanip>
@@ -287,4 +291,26 @@ int Bioskey()
return 0;
}
}
/// prefetch() preloads the given address in L1/L2 cache. This is a non
/// blocking function and do not stalls the CPU waiting for data to be
/// loaded from RAM, that can be very slow.
#if defined(NO_PREFETCH)
void prefetch(char*) {}
#else
void prefetch(char* addr) {
#if defined(__INTEL_COMPILER) || defined(__ICL)
// This hack prevents prefetches to be optimized away by
// Intel compiler. Both MSVC and gcc seems not affected.
__asm__ ("");
#endif
_mm_prefetch(addr, _MM_HINT_T2);
_mm_prefetch(addr+64, _MM_HINT_T2); // 64 bytes ahead
}
#endif
#endif