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+/*
+* Prefetching Operations
+* (C) 2009 Jack Lloyd
+*
+* Distributed under the terms of the Botan license
+*/
+
+#ifndef BOTAN_PREFETCH_H__
+#define BOTAN_PREFETCH_H__
+
+#include <botan/cpuid.h>
+
+namespace Botan {
+
+inline void prefetch_readonly(const void* addr_void, u32bit length)
+   {
+#if defined(__GNUG__)
+   const byte* addr = static_cast<const byte*>(addr_void);
+   const u32bit cl_size = CPUID::cache_line_size();
+
+   for(u32bit i = 0; i <= length; i += cl_size)
+      __builtin_prefetch(addr + i, 0);
+#endif
+   }
+
+inline void prefetch_readwrite(const void* addr_void, u32bit length)
+   {
+#if defined(__GNUG__)
+   const byte* addr = static_cast<const byte*>(addr_void);
+   const u32bit cl_size = CPUID::cache_line_size();
+
+   for(u32bit i = 0; i <= length; i += cl_size)
+      __builtin_prefetch(addr + i, 1);
+#endif
+   }
+
+}
+
+#endif