"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n....@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > (generic) is with Matt's arch-independent patches applied. Profiling > indicates that most of the overhead is actually with the lzo > decompression... > > Also, with a simple module to memset64() a 1GB vmalloc'ed buffer, here > are the results: > generic: 0.245315533 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.83% ) > optimized: 0.169282701 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.96% )
Great, that's pretty conclusive. I'm pretty sure I can take these 2 patches independently of Matt's series, they just won't be used by much until his series goes in, so I'll do that unless someone yells. cheers