Improves the accuracy of measurements, especially in short sections.
To quote the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual:
"The RDTSC instruction is not a serializing instruction. It does not necessarily
wait until all previous instructions have been executed before reading the counter.
Similarly, subsequent instructions may begin execution before the read operation
is performed. If software requires RDTSC to be executed only after all previous
instructions have completed locally, it can either use RDTSCP (if the processor
supports that instruction) or execute the sequence LFENCE;RDTSC."
SSE2 is a requirement for lfence so only use it on SSE2-capable systems.
Prefer lfence;rdtsc over rdtscp since rdtscp is supported on fewer systems.
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
Prevents a crash if the misaligned exception mask bit is
cleared for some reason.
Misaligned SSE functions are only used on AMD Phenom CPUs
and the benefit is miniscule. They also require modifying
the MXCSR control register and by removing those functions
we can get rid of that complexity altogether.
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
Store XMM6 and XMM7 in the shadow space in functions that
clobbers them. This way we don't have to adjust the stack
pointer as often, reducing the number of instructions as
well as code size.
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
Henrik GramnerandLuca Barbato
