Re: [PATCH V2 1/3] lib: introduce some memory copy macros and functions

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

> So I improve the generic version of memcpy and memmove, and x86_64's memmove
> which are implemented by byte copy.

One should also add that most memmove()s and memcpy()s are actually
generated by gcc as inlines (especially if you don't use the
"make my code slow" option aka -Os) and don't use the fallback.
The fallback depends on the gcc version and if gcc thinks the 
data is aligned or not.

Sometimes one can get better code in the caller by making sure
gcc knows the correct alignment (e.g. with suitable 
types) and size. This might be worth looking at for btrfs
if it's really that memmove heavy.

> >
> >I have some systemtap scripts to measure size/alignment distributions of
> >copies on a kernel, if you have a particular workload you're interested
> >in those could be tried.
> 
> Good! Could you give me these script?

ftp://firstfloor.org/pub/ak/probes/csum.m4

You need to run them through .m4 first.
They don't measure memmove, but that should be easy to add.

-Andi