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authorDamjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>2016-05-11 23:07:18 +0200
committerDamjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>2016-05-19 18:14:38 +0200
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Add support for multiple microarchitectures in single binary
* compiler -march= parameter is changed from native to corei7 so code is always genereted with instructions which are available on the Nehalem microarchitecture (up to SSE4.2) * compiler -mtune= parameter is added so code is optimized for corei7-avx which equals to Sandy Bridge microarchitecture * set of macros is added which allows run-time detection of available cpu instructions (e.g. clib_cpu_supports_avx()) * set of macros is added which allows us to clone graph node funcitons where cloned function is optmized for different microarchitecture Those macros are using following attributes: __attribute__((flatten)) __attribute__((target("arch=core-avx2))) I.e. If applied to foo_node_fn() macro will generate cloned functions foo_node_fn_avx2() and foo_node_fn_avx512() (future) It will also generate function void * foo_node_fn_multiarch_select() which detects available instruction set and returns pointer to the best matching function clone. Change-Id: I2dce0ac92a5ede95fcb56f47f3d1f3c4c040bac0 Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
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