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From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Big git diff speedup by avoiding x86 "fast string" memcmp
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:38:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101215043840.GA7692@cr0.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimeWSEUU6EYa4yWY11OyAVQqNu5eoBZc5ddqHQL@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 07:25:05PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:29 PM, J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>> But is the "rep cmp has quite a long latency" issue generic for all x86
>> architecture, or Westmere system specific?
>
>I don't believe it is Westmere specific. Intel and AMD have
>been improving these instructions in the past few years, so
>Westmere is probably as good or better than any.
>
>That said, rep cmp may not be as heavily optimized as the
>set and copy string instructions.
>
>In short, I think the change should be suitable for all x86 CPUs,
>but I would like to hear more opinions or see numbers for other
>cores.
>

How about other arch? If this is only for x86, shouldn't it be
protected by CONFIG_X86?

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-15  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-09  7:09 Big git diff speedup by avoiding x86 "fast string" memcmp Nick Piggin
2010-12-09 13:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-12-10  2:38   ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-10  4:27 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-10 14:23 ` J. R. Okajima
2010-12-13  1:45   ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-13  7:29     ` J. R. Okajima
2010-12-13  8:25       ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-14 19:01         ` J. R. Okajima
2010-12-15  4:06           ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-15  5:57             ` J. R. Okajima
2010-12-15 13:15             ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-12-15 18:00               ` David Miller
2010-12-16  9:53                 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-12-16 13:13                   ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-16 14:03                     ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-12-16 14:15                       ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-16 16:51                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-16 17:57                   ` David Miller
2010-12-15  4:38         ` Américo Wang [this message]
2010-12-15  5:54           ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-15  7:12             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-15 23:09 ` Tony Luck
2010-12-16  2:34   ` Nick Piggin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-12-18 22:54 George Spelvin
2010-12-19 14:28 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-12-19 15:46 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-19 17:06   ` George Spelvin
2010-12-21  9:26     ` Nick Piggin

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