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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: ling.ma@intel.com
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [X86] performance improvement for memcpy_64.S by fast string.
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:51:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87my2z7g1b.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257500482-16182-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@intel.com> (ling ma's message of "Fri,  6 Nov 2009 17:41:22 +0800")

ling.ma@intel.com writes:

> Intel Nehalem improves the performance of REP strings significantly
> over previous microarchitectures in several ways:

The problem is that it's not necessarily a win on older CPUs to
do it this way.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06  9:41 [PATCH RFC] [X86] performance improvement for memcpy_64.S by fast string ling.ma
2009-11-06 16:51 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-11-08 10:18   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-06 17:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-06 19:26   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-09  7:24     ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-09  7:36       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-09  8:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11  7:05           ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-11  7:18             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11  7:57               ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-11 23:21                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-12  2:12                   ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-11 20:34             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-11-11 22:39               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-12  4:28                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-11-12  4:49                   ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-12  5:26                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-12  7:42                       ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-12  9:54                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-11-12 12:16           ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-13  7:33             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-13  8:04               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-13  8:10                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-09  9:26         ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-09 16:41           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-09 18:54             ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-09 22:36               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-12 12:16       ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-13  5:33         ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-13  6:04           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-13  7:23             ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-13  7:30               ` H. Peter Anvin

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