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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: arun.sharma@intel.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys getdents64 needs compat wrapper ?
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 11:41:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040605114113.13926473.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26879984$108644643740c1db65f33611.91624784@config13.schlund.de>

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com> schrieb am 05.06.2004, 02:16:09:
> 
>  > - use put_user instead of copy_to_user for simple data types.
> 
>  Not that I care too much, but what's the point of this change? A single
>  __copy_to_user should be both faster and easier to read than two 
>  seperate __put_user when writing an unaligned 64 bit value.
> 

Easier to read, yes.  But __put_user() is faster.  It's a single instruction!

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-05 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-05 14:52 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_Re:_Re:_sys_getdents64_needs_compat_wrapper_??= Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-05 18:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-05 19:31   ` sys getdents64 needs compat wrapper ? David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-20 21:06 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_sys_getdents64_needs_compat_wrapper_??= Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-05  0:16 ` =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_sys_getdents64_needs_compat_wrapper_??= Arun Sharma
2004-06-05  0:28   ` sys getdents64 needs compat wrapper ? David S. Miller
2004-06-07 21:13     ` Arun Sharma
2004-06-07 21:58       ` David S. Miller
2004-06-11 15:09       ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-14 18:15         ` Arun Sharma
2004-06-17 22:28           ` Arun Sharma
2004-06-17 23:36             ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-18  0:56               ` Arun Sharma
2004-06-18 17:05                 ` Arun Sharma
2004-06-20 21:50                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-22 18:21                     ` Arun Sharma
2004-05-20 18:32 sys_getdents64 " Arun Sharma
2004-05-20 20:58 ` David S. Miller

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