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From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 10:12:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ed5cdac-7eb1-5444-c030-94e5504f7235@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471eb23d-40f2-0c66-c9db-c8b0b5204c07@zytor.com>



On 06/03/17 12:28 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/05/17 23:01, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>>
>> On 05/03/17 12:54 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>> Logan, wanna give that a try, see if it takes care of your issue?
>>
>> Well honestly my issue was solved by fixing my kernel config. I have no
>> idea why I had optimize for size in there in the first place.
>>
> 
> Yes, to gcc "optimize for size" means exactly that... intended for cases
> where saving storage (e.g. ROM) or code download time is paramount.

I agree and understand, however placing a poorly performing _inline_
memcpy instead of a single call instruction to a performant memcopy
probably took more code space in the end. So like Linus, I just have to
scratch my head at the -Os optimization option.

Logan

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-06 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-04 20:08 Logan Gunthorpe
2017-03-04 22:43 ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found]   ` <c675a6c8-e87a-ece2-2350-cdd079b1b610@deltatee.com>
2017-03-04 23:55     ` hpa
2017-03-05  0:14       ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-05  0:23         ` hpa
2017-03-05  0:33           ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-05  0:56             ` hpa
2017-03-05  9:50               ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-05 11:18                 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-05 13:05                   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-05 19:19                 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-05 19:54                   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-05 20:19                     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-06  7:01                     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2017-03-06  7:28                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-03-06 17:12                         ` Logan Gunthorpe [this message]
2017-03-06 18:53                           ` hpa
2017-03-06 13:33                       ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-06 13:41                         ` hpa
2017-03-06 14:00                           ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-05  4:58             ` Logan Gunthorpe
2017-03-05  9:54               ` Borislav Petkov

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