Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc5-mm2] i386 memcpy: optimal memcpy for IO

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Fri Jun 02 2006 - 02:02:51 EST


In-Reply-To: <447FC75F.6090905@xxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:06:39 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Why wrap this in C code when it's just assembly anyway? It just makes
> it look ugly...

Because I couldn't figure out how to do EXPORT_SYMBOL for assembler
code. :|

And the C compiler handles frame pointers and CONFIG_REGPARM
automatically, so that made the code simpler.

--
Chuck

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