RE: [PATCH] riscv: use the generic string routines

From: David Laight
Date: Mon Sep 13 2021 - 07:35:50 EST


> > These ended up getting rejected by Linus, so I'm going to hold off on
> > this for now. If they're really out of lib/ then I'll take the C
> > routines in arch/riscv, but either way it's an issue for the next
> > release.
> Agree, we should take the C routine in arch/riscv for common
> implementation. If any vendor what custom implementation they could
> use the alternative framework in errata for string operations.

I though the asm ones were significantly faster because
they were less affected by read latency.

(But they were horribly broken for misaligned transfers.)

David

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