Re: [PATCH RFC] x86:Improve memset with general 64bit instruction

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Apr 15 2014 - 01:01:40 EST


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 09:31:16PM +0800, Ling Ma wrote:
> The kernel version 3.14 shows memcpy, memset occur 19622 and 14189
> times respectively.
> so memset is still important for us, correct?

Did you ever see it in a profile log as being hot?
I haven't. Static counts don't mean much.

-Andi
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