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<div id="version" align=right><b>petsc-3.4.2 2013-07-02</b></div>
<A NAME="PetscPrefetchBlock"><H1>PetscPrefetchBlock</H1></A>
Prefetches a block of memory
<H3><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">Synopsis</FONT></H3>
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#include "petscsys.h"
void PetscPrefetchBlock(const anytype *a,size_t n,int rw,int t)
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Not Collective
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<H3><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">Input Parameters</FONT></H3>
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<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>a </B></TD><TD>- pointer to first element to fetch (any type but usually <A HREF="../Sys/PetscInt.html#PetscInt">PetscInt</A> or <A HREF="../Sys/PetscScalar.html#PetscScalar">PetscScalar</A>)
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<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>n </B></TD><TD>- number of elements to fetch
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<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>rw </B></TD><TD>- 1 if the memory will be written to, otherwise 0 (ignored by many processors)
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<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>t </B></TD><TD>- temporal locality (PETSC_PREFETCH_HINT_{NTA,T0,T1,T2}), see note
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<H3><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">Notes</FONT></H3>
The last two arguments (rw and t) must be compile-time constants.
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Adopting Intel's x86/x86-64 conventions, there are four levels of temporal locality. Not all architectures offer
equivalent locality hints, but the following macros are always defined to their closest analogue.
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<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>PETSC_PREFETCH_HINT_NTA </B></TD><TD>- Non-temporal. Prefetches directly to L1, evicts to memory (skips higher level cache unless it was already there when prefetched).
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<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>PETSC_PREFETCH_HINT_T0 </B></TD><TD>- Fetch to all levels of cache and evict to the closest level. Use this when the memory will be reused regularly despite necessary eviction from L1.
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<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>PETSC_PREFETCH_HINT_T1 </B></TD><TD>- Fetch to level 2 and higher (not L1).
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<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>PETSC_PREFETCH_HINT_T2 </B></TD><TD>- Fetch to high-level cache only. (On many systems, T0 and T1 are equivalent.)
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This function does nothing on architectures that do not support prefetch and never errors (even if passed an invalid
address).
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<P><B><P><B><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">Level:</FONT></B>developer
<BR><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">Location:</FONT></B><A HREF="../../../include/petscsys.h.html#PetscPrefetchBlock">include/petscsys.h</A>
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