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| 50 <a name="Cell-Caveats"></a> | |
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| 57 <h3 class="section">6.2 Cell Caveats</h3> | |
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| 59 <ul> | |
| 60 <li>The FFTW benchmark program allocates memory using malloc() or | |
| 61 equivalent library calls, reflecting the common usage of the FFTW | |
| 62 library. However, you can sometimes improve performance significantly | |
| 63 by allocating memory in system-specific large TLB pages. E.g., we | |
| 64 have seen 39 GFLOPS/s for a 256 × 256 × 256 problem using | |
| 65 large pages, whereas the speed is about 25 GFLOPS/s with normal pages. | |
| 66 YMMV. | |
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| 68 <li>FFTW hoards all available SPEs for itself. You can optionally | |
| 69 choose a different number of SPEs by calling the undocumented | |
| 70 function <code>fftw_cell_set_nspe(n)</code>, where <code>n</code> is the number of desired | |
| 71 SPEs. Expect this interface to go away once we figure out how to | |
| 72 make FFTW play nicely with other Cell software. | |
| 73 | |
| 74 <p>In particular, if you try to link both the single and double precision | |
| 75 of FFTW in the same program (which you can do), they will both try | |
| 76 to grab all SPEs and the second one will hang. | |
| 77 | |
| 78 <li>The SPEs demand that data be stored in contiguous arrays aligned at | |
| 79 16-byte boundaries. If you instruct FFTW to operate on | |
| 80 noncontiguous or nonaligned data, the SPEs will not be used, | |
| 81 resulting in slow execution. See <a href="Data-Alignment.html#Data-Alignment">Data Alignment</a>. | |
| 82 | |
| 83 <li>The <code>FFTW_ESTIMATE</code> mode may produce seriously suboptimal plans, and | |
| 84 it becomes particularly confused if you enable both the SPEs and | |
| 85 Altivec. If you care about performance, please use <code>FFTW_MEASURE</code> | |
| 86 or <code>FFTW_PATIENT</code> until we figure out a more reliable performance model. | |
| 87 | |
| 88 </ul> | |
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