From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756237AbZENNi6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2009 09:38:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752114AbZENNit (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2009 09:38:49 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.29]:57298 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751615AbZENNis (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2009 09:38:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LRt5CWNFZKfQ9cREMqr0NVAGh2sl/hymVepiZ99raXD/02YTlb76fCyqPwq0Hr/BKS i35jZHYVN+knvYU7UmQJprvHLauUSAM7dSMEPbUvb+bXOgooKNd8MC5ACL1I2oTblbuS 7IjY3VMEXVyT8p/uwUrwdzI5AMGKKwn523gNA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1242277453.23058.35.camel@brick> References: <200904301408.09370.tobias.doerffel@gmail.com> <877i0xib7d.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20090512150408.GH19296@one.firstfloor.org> <1242277453.23058.35.camel@brick> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 06:38:48 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Specific support for Intel Atom architecture From: Ulrich Drepper To: Harvey Harrison Cc: Andi Kleen , Tobias Doerffel , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Harvey Harrison wrote: > It's called be16_to_cpup, or on x86, swab16p() Indeed. If now somebody with an Atom could test whether using movbe has an advantage (my guess is that there is a slight advantage) then one could define a special version of the __beXX_to_cpup and __cpu_to_beXXp functions for Atom and start using these functions more rigorously in the tree.