linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] x86_64/lib: improve the performance of memmove

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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:16:31 +0800
From:	Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64/lib: improve the performance of memmove

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:48:25 +0200 (cest), Andi Kleen wrote:
>> When the dest and the src do overlap and the memory area is large, memmove
>> of
>> x86_64 is very inefficient, and it led to bad performance, such as btrfs's
>> file
>> deletion performance. This patch improved the performance of memmove on
>> x86_64
>> by using __memcpy_bwd() instead of byte copy when doing large memory area
>> copy
>> (len>  64).
>
>
> I still don't understand why you don't simply use a backwards
> string copy (with std) ? That should be much simpler and
> hopefully be as optimized for kernel copies on recent CPUs.

But according to the comment of memcpy, some CPUs don't support "REP" instruction,
so I think we must implement a backwards string copy by other method for those CPUs,
But that implement is complex, so I write it as a function -- __memcpy_bwd().

Thanks!
Miao
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