From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: robherring2@gmail.com (Rob Herring) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:36:41 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: lib: use LDRD/STRD for data copy In-Reply-To: <20120319085503.GL15988@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <007201cd059e$4af2cc10$e0d86430$%kim@samsung.com> <20120319085503.GL15988@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <4F674479.8090101@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 03/19/2012 03:55 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 04:02:48PM +0900, Boojin Kim wrote: >> This patch uses LDRD/STRD that loads and stores data as DWORD unit >> for the copy of 8-words data. >> It brings better performance than LDRM/STRM that was used originally. > > And what about CPUs that don't have ldrd/strd ? > And what about CPUs that do have ldrd/strd but is slower than ldm/stm? I'm pretty sure that is almost everything currently out there. Rob