[Libre-soc-dev] remap status?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 3:12 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Sounds like a good use-case for strided load (load base+0*stride,
> base+1*stride, base+2*stride, ...).


glad you remembered the name.

Strided load/store is very important
> for GPU Shader performance, it is very common there. It can be implemented
> less efficiently with gather-load.
>

yeah we don't want to be doing that.

the SVP64 Mode bits are interpreted differently for LD/ST so as
to include a "strided" mode.
https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/ldst/

actually it's to distinguish between unit-stride and element-stride.  all
very odd.

l.