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Message-ID: <20070817185452.5cbf60c4@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:54:52 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.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, 17 Aug 2007 18:49:34 -0700
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> 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)
i386 and x86_64 are not using __builtin_memset, as least from the
code that I see generated.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
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