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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@gmail.com,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/uaccess: Use flexible addressing with __put_user()/__get_user()
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:30:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200812193032.GU6753@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b63e2b8-a134-9a50-2106-8ff110cf9a31@csgroup.eu>

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 02:32:51PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Anyway, it seems that GCC doesn't make much use of the "m<>" and the 
> pre-update form.

GCC does not use update form outside of inner loops much.  Did you
expect anything else?

> Most of the benefit of flexible addressing seems to be 
> achieved with patch 1 ie without the "m<>" constraint and update form.

Yes.


Segher

      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-12 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-16 12:39 [PATCH v2] powerpc/uaccess: Use flexible addressing with __put_user()/__get_user() Christophe Leroy
2020-06-29  6:52 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-06-29 11:27   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-06-30  1:19     ` Michael Ellerman
2020-06-30 14:55       ` Christophe Leroy
2020-06-30 16:33         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-30 17:02           ` Christophe Leroy
2020-06-30 17:31           ` Christophe Leroy
2020-06-30 18:53           ` Christophe Leroy
2020-06-30 21:18             ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-07-01  7:05               ` Christophe Leroy
2020-07-07 12:44       ` Christophe Leroy
2020-07-07 19:02         ` Christophe Leroy
2020-07-08  4:49           ` Christophe Leroy
2020-08-12 12:32             ` Christophe Leroy
2020-08-12 19:30               ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]

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