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Message-Id: <1187401774.2789.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:49:34 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: optimize memset of 6 and 8 bytes
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 16:50 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Tne network code does memset for 6 and 8 byte values, that can easily
> be optimized into simple assignments without string instructions.
so... question.
Why are we doing this by hand? Wouldn't gcc just generate this code in
the first place (when using __builtin_memset)? I very much suspect it
would (and if some version doesn't.... we really ought to get that
fixed)
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