> Implement a POWER7 optimised copy_page using VMX. We copy a cacheline > at a time using VMX loads and stores. > > Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org> > --- > > How do we want to handle per machine optimised functions? I create > yet another feature bit, but feature bits might get out of control > at some point.
Yeah, I'm pretty against CPU_FTR_POWER7. Every loon is going to attach anything POWER7 to it. I'm keen to see it setup in __setup_cpu_power7. Either a function pointer or use the patch_instruction infrastructure to avoid indirect function calls on small copies. Mikey _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
