Re: [PATCH 3 of 3] Add __raw_memcpy_toio32 to each arch

From: Bryan O'Sullivan
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 17:51:45 EST


On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 21:08 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 20:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> > Most arches use the generic routine. x86_64 uses memcpy32 instead;
> > this is substantially faster, even over a bus that is much slower than
> > the CPU.
>
> So did you run numbers against the C implementation with -funroll-loops ?
> What were the results?

The C implementation is about 5% slower when copying over
HyperTransport.

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