Re: x86/asm: __clear_user() micro-optimization (was: "Re: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v4.18")
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jun 05 2018 - 13:33:12 EST
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:22 AM Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Tested? :^) I had P4 maybe ~15(?) years ago.
Did you EVEN test it on what you have today?
Do you have any numbers at all, in other words?
Micro-optimizations need numbers. Otherwise they aren't
micro-optimizations, they are just "change code randomly".
Linus