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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
	paulus@samba.org, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:19:07 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324264747.30454.15.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324263652.30454.13.camel@pasglop>

On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 14:00 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 17:11 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Implement a POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX.
> > For large aligned copies this new loop is over 10% faster, and for
> > large unaligned copies it is over 200% faster.
> 
> Breaks !CONFIG_ALTIVEC build an pops some WARN's with preempt & lockdep,
> this seems to fix them:

And it's missing another ifdef actually for !CONFIG_ALTIVEC, I'll fix it
locally and will put a fixed version in -next.

Cheers,
Ben.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-19  3:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08  5:02 [PATCH] powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX Anton Blanchard
2011-12-08  5:44 ` Kumar Gala
2011-12-08  5:54   ` Michael Neuling
2011-12-08  6:04     ` Anton Blanchard
2011-12-08 13:31       ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-12-08 14:02         ` David Laight
2011-12-08 14:12           ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-12-08 19:40       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-12-08  6:11     ` Anton Blanchard
2011-12-19  3:00       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-12-19  3:19         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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