On Wed, 2016-25-05 at 22:39:55 UTC, Unknown sender due to SPF wrote:
> Align the hot loops in our assembly implementation of strncpy(),
> strncmp() and memchr().
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/87a156fb18fe15d012c3db506b
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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 07:45:18AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> >>Wouldn't it be better to add nops before the function entry in order to
> >>get the hot loop aligned, instead of adding nops in the middle of the
> >>function ?
> >Why would that be better? The nops are executed once per functio
Le 26/05/2016 à 21:37, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 09:24:51AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Wouldn't it be better to add nops before the function entry in order to
get the hot loop aligned, instead of adding nops in the middle of the
function ?
Why would that be bett
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 09:24:51AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to add nops before the function entry in order to
> get the hot loop aligned, instead of adding nops in the middle of the
> function ?
Why would that be better? The nops are executed once per function call
Le 26/05/2016 à 00:39, Anton Blanchard via Linuxppc-dev a écrit :
Align the hot loops in our assembly implementation of strncpy(),
strncmp() and memchr().
Wouldn't it be better to add nops before the function entry in order to
get the hot loop aligned, instead of adding nops in the middle of t
Align the hot loops in our assembly implementation of strncpy(),
strncmp() and memchr().
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard
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Index: linux.junk/arch/powerpc/lib/string.S
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--- linux.junk.orig/arch/powerpc/lib/string.S
+++ linux.junk
