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From: Tom Leete <tleete@mountain.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Ford <david@linux.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:53:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A796A77.3B1D3DE4@mountain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14OHKN-00047W-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> We have a very large number of memcpy's of unknown short length (often in
> interrupts) that are close to branches. A lot of
> 
>         if(foo==NULL)
>                 return
>         memcpy(..
> 
> stuff for example.
> 
> Im more than happy for someone to do the benches and prove me wrong

Agreed, that is a bad case, and there is overhead for it in my patch. I'm
putting together some metrics, will post results here.

Regards,
Tom

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-01 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-31  2:53 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined) David Ford
2001-01-31  3:01 ` Stephen Frost
2001-01-31  4:37   ` David Ford
2001-01-31  7:16     ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-31  8:03     ` Tom Leete
2001-01-31 10:26       ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-31 10:48         ` Tom Leete
2001-01-31 11:10           ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-31 23:01             ` Olaf Titz
2001-01-31 23:38           ` David Lang
2001-02-01  1:11             ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-01  1:22               ` Alan Cox
2001-02-02 15:12         ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-31 13:29       ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01  7:52         ` Tom Leete
2001-02-01  8:12           ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-01 13:39             ` Tom Leete
2001-02-01 10:50           ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 13:53             ` Tom Leete [this message]
2001-01-31 23:26     ` David Lang
2001-02-01 15:04       ` Jeff Garzik

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