From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, ak@muc.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:57:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030926205733.7942a74e.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16244.31648.766419.56901@napali.hpl.hp.com>
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:47:12 -0700
David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> Arches that don't like/support unaligned accesses will certainly
> have a copy_user() which handles misalignment just fine. For
> example, on ia64, the copy will run slightly slower because of an
> additional shift in the loop, but that penalty only shows on fully
> cached data.
Exactly correct, and on many platforms (sparc64 happens to be one)
there is _ZERO_ performance penalty for misalignment or source or
destination buffer during a memcpy/memmove.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-27 3:58 UTC|newest]
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2003-09-26 17:04 ` NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Andi Kleen
2003-09-26 17:22 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-26 17:47 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-27 3:57 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-09-27 4:36 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27 4:52 ` David Mosberger
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2003-09-27 4:26 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27 4:34 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-27 23:36 ` David S. Miller
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2003-09-26 15:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-26 15:41 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-26 6:16 Manfred Spraul
2003-09-26 6:07 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-26 6:41 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-26 14:38 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-09-27 3:12 ` David S. Miller
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2003-09-23 22:58 Luck, Tony
2003-09-23 23:32 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24 5:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-23 18:21 Luck, Tony
2003-09-23 18:29 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 18:45 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:51 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 18:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 20:38 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 20:45 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 22:35 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-23 23:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24 0:13 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-24 0:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24 1:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-23 19:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 18:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 18:52 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 19:01 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-23 19:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-23 19:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 23:15 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-23 23:37 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24 0:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-24 0:06 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-23 19:11 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 19:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-23 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-23 21:16 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24 1:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 17:58 Van Maren, Kevin
2003-09-23 17:57 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:27 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 18:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 19:17 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 19:10 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 20:00 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24 3:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-25 16:11 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-09-26 1:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:06 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 19:11 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-19 4:16 Peter Chubb
2003-09-19 4:38 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-19 4:43 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-19 5:01 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-19 5:53 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-19 10:49 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 0:34 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23 0:36 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-09-23 6:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 10:40 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-23 10:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 14:59 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-23 17:27 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 17:56 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24 2:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-23 23:04 ` Ian Wienand
2003-09-23 23:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-19 5:04 ` Grant Grundler
2003-09-19 5:11 ` Peter Chubb
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