Re: [PATCH 07/32] mm: Bring back vmalloc_exec

Kent Overstreet
2023-05-15T05:39:06Z

On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 11:43:25AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> I think it would also help if the generated assembly had the handling of the
> fields interleaved. To achieve that, it might be necessary to interleave the C
> code.

No, that has negligable effect on performance - as expected, for an out
of order processor. < 1% improvement.

It doesn't look like this approach is going to work here. Sadly.