Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:34:46 -0700 (PDT), Wayne Gowcher <wgowcher@yahoo.com> said:
> wgowcher> a 23 % reduction in the Floating Point Index benchmark
>
> Current CVS kernel uses FPU emulator unconditionally. If one floating
> point intruction causes a 'Unimplemented' exception (denormalized
> result, etc.) following floating point instructions are also handle by
> FPU emulator (not only the instruction which raise the exception).
You got a point here, no need to emulate following floating point instructions, if one got
a real FPU.
But I think the check in the FP emulator should be a check if we got a real FPU, instead of
a counter.
We already has a flag for that in mips_cpu.options.
The check could be something like:
if (mips_cpu.options & MIPS_CPU_FPU)
break;
>
> I do not know this is really desired behavior, but here is a patch to
> change this. If Unimplemented exception had been occured during the
> benchmark, aplying this patch may result better performance.
>
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> Atsushi Nemoto
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