Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Introduce aligned IO memory operations

[Jiaxun Yang]

ä 2020å1æ24æ GMT+08:00 äå10:07:51, Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> åå:
>On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:45:06AM -0800, Paul Burton wrote:
>> Hi Jiaxun,
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 08:23:43PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
>> > Some platforms, such as Loongson64 or QEMU/KVM, don't support
>unaligned
>> > instructions like lwl or lwr in IO memory access. However, our
>current
>> > IO memcpy/memset is wired to the generic implementation, which
>leads
>> > to a fatal result.
>> 
>> Hmm, I wonder if we should just do this unconditionally on all
>systems.
>> I can't think of a reason it'd ever be a good idea to use lwl/lwr on
>an
>> MMIO device. Any thoughts on that?
>
>depends on the type of device. I can see benefits for framebuffers
>and memory devices since memset/memcpy are more optimised than the
>function in this patch.

lwl/lwr is slower than this implementation on your system?
I thought that other platforms support unaligned request can be benefited from speed up of these instructions.

>
>Thomas.

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Jiaxun Yang