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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Nick Desaulniers' <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"llvm@lists.linux.dev" <llvm@lists.linux.dev>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4] x86, mem: move memmove to out of line assembler
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 09:55:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5672845ec66744df9ee0f0c56031ab00@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220928210512.642594-1-ndesaulniers@google.com>

From: Nick Desaulniers
> Sent: 28 September 2022 22:05
...
> memmove is quite large and probably shouldn't be inlined due to size
> alone
..
> +	/* Decide forward/backward copy mode */
> +	cmpl	dest, src
> +	jb	.Lbackwards_header

It has to be better to do the slightly more complicated
test 'dest - src < size' (as unsigned) so that reverse
copies are only done when absolutely necessary.

Ignoring pathological cases on some cpu families the
forwards copy will benefit from hardware cache prefetch.

I also have a vague recollection of std and cld being slow.

Oh - and why do all the labels have 'byteswap' in them?

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-30  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-23 17:02 [PATCH] " Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-23 17:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-09-23 17:55   ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-23 18:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-09-27 17:03       ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-27 17:28         ` [PATCH v2] " Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-27 18:41           ` Kees Cook
2022-09-27 19:23           ` Kees Cook
2022-09-27 20:01             ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-27 20:36               ` Kees Cook
2022-09-27 21:02                 ` [PATCH v3] " Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-27 21:14                   ` Kees Cook
2022-09-28  7:24                   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2022-09-28 19:00                     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-09-28 19:06                     ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-28 20:49                       ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-28 21:05                         ` [PATCH v4] " Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-28 22:03                           ` Kees Cook
2022-09-29  7:01                           ` Ingo Molnar
2022-09-29  8:02                           ` Ingo Molnar
2022-09-29 17:26                             ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-30  9:55                           ` David Laight [this message]
2022-09-30 16:43                             ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-30 16:46                               ` Linus Torvalds
2022-09-30 18:55                                 ` [PATCH v5] " Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-30 10:14                           ` [PATCH v4] " David Laight

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