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From: bgat@billgatliff.com (Bill Gatliff)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: ARM: big performance waste in memcpy_{from,to}io
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFD667B.3020505@billgatliff.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091113122438.GB29008@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> The problem is whether optimising it will end up breaking existing users.
>   

I say we throw in the optimized version and enable it by default, along
with a Kconfig to defeat it upon user request at build time (or maybe a
module parameter).  And then see who complains.


b.g.

-- 
Bill Gatliff
bgat at billgatliff.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-13 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-12 16:49 ARM: big performance waste in memcpy_{from,to}io Hubert Feurstein
2009-11-12 18:44 ` Alexander Clouter
2009-11-13 11:32   ` Hubert Feurstein
2009-11-13 12:24     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-11-13 12:42       ` Andy Green
2009-11-13 14:00       ` Bill Gatliff [this message]
2009-11-16 14:57         ` [RFC PATCH] ARM: add (experimental) alternative memcpy_{from, to}io() and memset_io() Hubert Feurstein
2009-11-13 15:16       ` ARM: big performance waste in memcpy_{from,to}io Hubert Feurstein
2009-11-13 23:14 ` Ben Dooks

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