On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:54 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
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> Implement a POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX.
> For large aligned copies this new loop is over 10% faster, and for
> large unaligned copies it is over 200% fa
Implement a POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX.
For large aligned copies this new loop is over 10% faster, and for
large unaligned copies it is over 200% faster.
If we take a fault we fall back to the old version, this keeps
things relatively simple and easy to verify.
(The de
