RE: setting loop buffer size in the gcc (aarch64)

2016-02-17 Thread Kumar, Venkataramanan
Regards, Venkat. > -Original Message- > From: linaro-toolchain [mailto:linaro-toolchain-boun...@lists.linaro.org] On > Behalf Of Kugan > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 3:15 AM > To: Virendra Kumar Pathak; Linaro Toolchain Mailman List > Subject: Re: setting loop buff

Re: setting loop buffer size in the gcc (aarch64)

2016-02-17 Thread Kugan
Hi, On 18/02/16 01:51, Virendra Kumar Pathak wrote: > Hi Toolchain Group, > > I am trying to study the effect of loop buffer size on loop unrolling & > the way gcc (aarch64) handles this. It depends on the micro-architecture. Usually, loop buffer helps to hold the loop completely and supplies t

setting loop buffer size in the gcc (aarch64)

2016-02-17 Thread Virendra Kumar Pathak
Hi Toolchain Group, I am trying to study the effect of loop buffer size on loop unrolling & the way gcc (aarch64) handles this. To my understanding, Loop Buffer is like i-cache which contains pre-decoded instruction that can be re-used if branch instruction loopbacks to an instruction which is st