Re: [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Wed Jan 11 2006 - 13:49:14 EST


Bryan> I'll take a look at whether the extra call/ret indirection
Bryan> affects performance in a measurable fashion.

Your current implementation is out-of-line, right?

I would be surprised if calling a function has any overhead on x86_64,
since the function call is a jump that can be predicted perfectly.
The only issue is the code to shuffle values into the right registers.

- R.
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