From a74edb40018e1ff9bb350a6e12d05d336b6798cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 05:22:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/svp_rewrite/svp64.mdwn | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/svp_rewrite/svp64.mdwn b/openpower/sv/svp_rewrite/svp64.mdwn index 3e25674e1..68d59a81a 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/svp_rewrite/svp64.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/svp_rewrite/svp64.mdwn @@ -510,11 +510,14 @@ As mentioned above, OE=1 is not applicable in SV, freeing this bit for alternati Likewise, `lq` (Load Quad), and Load/Store Multiple make no sense to have because they are not only provided by SV, the SV alternatives may be predicated as well, making them far better suited to use in function calls and context-switching. -This leaves several Major Opcodes free for use by SV to fit alternative instructions: Vector Product, Vector Normalise, [[sv/mv.swizzle]], Texture LD/ST operations, and others critical to an efficient, effective 3D GPU and VPU ISA. With such instructions being included as standard in other commercially-successful GPU ISAs it is likewise critical that a 3D GPU/VPU based on svp64 also have such instructions. +Additionally, some v3.0/1 instructions simply make no sense at all in a Vector context: `twi` and `tdi` fall into this category, as do branch operations. Here there is simply no point trying to Vectorise them: the standard OpenPOWER v3.0/1 instructions should be called instead. + +Fortuitously this leaves several Major Opcodes free for use by SV to fit alternative instructions: Vector Product, Vector Normalise, [[sv/mv.swizzle]], Texture LD/ST operations, and others critical to an efficient, effective 3D GPU and VPU ISA. With such instructions being included as standard in other commercially-successful GPU ISAs it is likewise critical that a 3D GPU/VPU based on svp64 also have such instructions. Note however that svp64 is stand-alone and is in no way critically dependent on the existence or provision of 3D GPU or VPU instructions. These should be considered extensions, and their discussion and specification is out of scope for this document. -Note, again: this is *only* under svp64 prefixing. Standard v3.0B / v3.1B is *not* altered by svp64. +Note, again: this is *only* under svp64 prefixing. Standard v3.0B / v3.1B is *not* altered by svp64 in any way. + ## Twin Predication This is a novel concept that allows predication to be applied to a single -- 2.30.2