On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:11:27PM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:58:01PM -0500, Niels Christiansen wrote:
>
> > Maybe it is time to see if the compiler has improved enough to
> > scrap the copy code in the kernel in favor of code as generated by the
> > compiler.
>
> This came up about a month ago. I'll repeat what I said then.
> "I'll believe it when I see it".
Just look at the x86-64 port (2.5)
The code generated by gcc 3.1 is a lot better than the inline macros.
For example it knows the alignment of target/source and emits
unrolled big (4,2,1bytes) moves and some tricks.
We're using that on x86-64. For tricky cases (it cannot determine length
or alignment) it'll still call out to out of line functions, which
should be optimized, notably not just use rep ; s... like the inline macros
which isn't very efficient on Athlon.
-Andi
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