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Non-Temporal Writes in SIMD Instruction set

Jeff Kirkham
Note: This was originally posted on 21st March 2011 at http://forums.arm.com

X-86 platform supports what they term as non-temporal writes. This just means stores from the registers to memory that do not influence the cache. They are purported to run faster. Are there similar instructions for the NEON where we can speed up a simple memory copy by writing directly to memory and bypassing the cache?
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    Note: This was originally posted on 23rd March 2011 at http://forums.arm.com


    but I have not been told why it is irrelevant.


    Totally different memory system implementation in the two cores ...

    For sequential reads from cache the Cortex-A9 implements an integrated preload engine which is transparent to the programmer. It should always be "one step ahead" of the memcpy without the need for the programmer to tickle the buffer being read from. http://infocenter.ar...f/CHDFEFAH.html

    I've seen benchmarks that show copies from cached to uncached-buffered memory (equivalent to your uncached write) are slower than cached to cached copies. However, it does probably depend on memory latencies, bandwidths, etc to some degree ...
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  • Arm Employee Badge
    Note: This was originally posted on 23rd March 2011 at http://forums.arm.com


    but I have not been told why it is irrelevant.


    Totally different memory system implementation in the two cores ...

    For sequential reads from cache the Cortex-A9 implements an integrated preload engine which is transparent to the programmer. It should always be "one step ahead" of the memcpy without the need for the programmer to tickle the buffer being read from. http://infocenter.ar...f/CHDFEFAH.html

    I've seen benchmarks that show copies from cached to uncached-buffered memory (equivalent to your uncached write) are slower than cached to cached copies. However, it does probably depend on memory latencies, bandwidths, etc to some degree ...
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