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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Akira Tsukamoto <at541@columbia.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH]  2.5.47 Athlon/Druon, much faster copy_user function
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:56:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021116115652.A26519@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021115235234.8DE4.AT541@columbia.edu>


You don't seem to save/restore the FPU state, so it will be likely 
corrupted after your copy runs.

Also I'm pretty sure that using movntq (= forcing destination out of 
cache) is not a good strategy for generic copy_from_user(). It may 
be a win for the copies in write ( user space -> page cache ), but 
will hurt for all the ioctls and other things that actually need the
data in cache afterwards. I am afraid it is not enough to do micro benchmarks
here.


-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-16 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-16  6:53 [CFT][PATCH] 2.5.47 Athlon/Druon, much faster copy_user function Akira Tsukamoto
2002-11-16 10:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-11-16 18:22   ` Akira Tsukamoto
2002-11-16 18:30     ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-16 18:50       ` Akira Tsukamoto
2002-11-16 22:23         ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-11-16 21:55       ` Akira Tsukamoto

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