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authorDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>2009-11-24 21:24:44 -0800
committerDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>2009-11-24 21:24:44 -0800
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Cortex-A8: avoid DSCR reads
There was a lot of needless handshaking overhead in the current Cortex-A8 DCC/ITR operations, since the status read by each step was discarded rather than letting the next step know it. This shrinks the handshaking by: (a) passing status along from previous steps, avoiding re-fetching; which enables the big win (b) relying on a useful invariant: that the DSCR_INSTR_COMP bit is set after every call to a DPM method. A "reg sp_usr" call previously took 17 flushes; now it takes just 9. This visibly speeds common operations like entry to debug state and stepping, as well as "arm reg" and so on. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
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