RE: [PATCH] x86: only use ERMS for user copies for larger sizes

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 05 January 2019 02:39
...
> Anyway, it would be lovely to hear whether memcpy_toio() now works
> reasonably. I just picked our very old legacy function for this, so it
> will do things in 32-bit chunks (even on x86-64), and I'm certainly
> open to somebody doing something smarter, but considering that nobody
> else seemed to show any interest in this at all, I just went
> "whatever, good enough".
> 
> I tried to make it easy to improve on things if people want to.

I'll do some tests once the merge has had time to settle.

I needed to open-code one part because it wants to do copy_to_user()
from a PCIe address buffer (which has to work).

Using 64bit chunks for reads is probably worth while on x86-64.
I might cook up a patch.
Actually, if the AVX registers are available without an fpu save
using larger chunks would be worthwhile - especially for io reads.

	David

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