From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
"Abid, Hafiz" <Hafiz_Abid@mentor.com>,
"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
"Mirza, Taimoor" <Taimoor_Mirza@mentor.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Disassembly improvements
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 07:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22SWhP924kfVOH5TKCAq+_cG9YJt_Jhd0XZWzZyryNEzjA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5261E638.7030702@codesourcery.com>
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On 10/19/2013 02:25 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>
>> BTW, how will your "Read memory in multiple lines in dcache_xfer_memory"
>> series help disassembly if the disassembler, today, without that other
>> patch that caches things in disasm.c, fetches memory from the target
>> instruction by instruction? Seems to me it'll end up always fetching
>> a single line at a time.
>
>
> That series is to optimize dcache, since disassembly doesn't use dcache,
> that series doesn't help disassembly now.
> Once we use dcache in disassembly (that is what I am doing), that series
> helps when users disassembly large functions.
You'll need to add some sort of prefetcher called from a higher level
in the disassembler that knows the memory range being disassembled.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-25 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-10 13:14 Abid, Hafiz
2013-10-10 13:34 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-10 13:57 ` Abid, Hafiz
2013-10-10 14:52 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-10 15:13 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-11 16:45 ` Abid, Hafiz
2013-10-11 21:12 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-11 21:34 ` Doug Evans
2013-10-14 9:37 ` Abid, Hafiz
2013-10-14 14:42 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-16 1:16 ` Doug Evans
2013-10-16 7:53 ` Yao Qi
2013-10-16 12:08 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-16 13:23 ` Yao Qi
2013-10-18 10:24 ` Yao Qi
2013-10-18 18:25 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-19 1:55 ` Yao Qi
2013-10-25 7:56 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2013-10-16 12:02 ` Pedro Alves
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