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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, rdreier@cisco.com
Subject: [PATCH 2 of 2] Add faster __iowrite32_copy routine for x86_64
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:05:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30c7112c6e81a83a87f0.1137085532@eng-12.pathscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1137085530@eng-12.pathscale.com>

This assembly version is measurably faster than the generic version
in lib/iomap_copy.c.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>

diff -r ec2b3675168a -r 30c7112c6e81 arch/x86_64/lib/Makefile
--- a/arch/x86_64/lib/Makefile	Thu Jan 12 09:03:37 2006 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86_64/lib/Makefile	Thu Jan 12 09:03:37 2006 -0800
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 CFLAGS_csum-partial.o := -funroll-loops
 
-obj-y := io.o
+obj-y := io.o iomap_copy.o
 
 lib-y := csum-partial.o csum-copy.o csum-wrappers.o delay.o \
 	usercopy.o getuser.o putuser.o  \
diff -r ec2b3675168a -r 30c7112c6e81 arch/x86_64/lib/iomap_copy.S
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/arch/x86_64/lib/iomap_copy.S	Thu Jan 12 09:03:37 2006 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2006 PathScale, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * override generic version in lib/iomap_copy.c
+ */
+ 	.globl __iowrite32_copy
+	.p2align 4
+__iowrite32_copy:
+	movl %edx,%ecx
+	rep movsd
+	ret

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-12 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-12 17:05 [PATCH 0 of 2] MMIO copy patches, the next generation Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-12 17:05 ` [PATCH 1 of 2] Introduce __iowrite32_copy Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-12 17:05 ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]

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