linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Multibyte memset variations

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:27:38 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     minchan@...nel.org, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        akpm@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Multibyte memset variations

Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> writes:

> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
>
> A relatively common idiom we're missing is a function to fill an area
> of memory with a pattern which is larger than a single byte.  I first
> noticed this with a zram patch which wanted to fill a page with an
> 'unsigned long' value.  There turn out to be quite a few places in
> the kernel which can benefit from using an optimised function rather
> than a loop; sometimes text size, sometimes speed, and sometimes both.
> The optimised PowerPC version (not included here) improves performance
> by about 30% on POWER8 on just the raw memset_l().

Is the plan that Andrew will merge this series, or are you planning to
put them in a tree of yours?

cheers