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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add likely around access_ok for uaccess
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:49:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030916194929.GF602@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F644E36.5010402@colorfullife.com>

Hi!

> while trying to figure out why sysv msg is around 30% slower than pipes 
> for data transfers I noticed that gcc's autodetection (3.2.2) guesses 
> the "if(access_ok())" tests in uaccess.h wrong and puts the error memset 
> into the direct path and the copy out of line.
> 
> The attached patch adds likely to the tests - any objections? What about 
> the archs except i386?

How much speedup did you gain?
								Pavel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-16 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-14 11:17 [PATCH] add likely around access_ok for uaccess Manfred Spraul
2003-09-14 19:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-14 19:45   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-14 19:48     ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-14 20:00     ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-15 22:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-16 19:49 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-09-16 20:55   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-16 20:59     ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-17 16:57       ` Manfred Spraul
     [not found] <vD5l.6Wt.19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-14 16:49 ` Andi Kleen

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