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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/string: Bring optimized memcmp from glibc
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:55:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whhThPq-ETzyepM0OteV480FcVExxPMoU0ntaH-mX_BrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgMyXh3gGuSzj_Dgw=Gn_XPxGSTPq6Pz7dEyx6JNuAh9g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 11:45 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>  - the code generation is actually quite good with both gcc and clang.

Side note: I only looked at whether the code looked good, I didn't
check whether it looked *correct*.

So caveat emptor.  It looks trivially correct both on the source and
assembly level, but it's entirely untested, which probably means that
it has some stupid bug.

               Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-21 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-21 13:59 [PATCH] lib/string: Bring optimized memcmp from glibc Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-21 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 14:35   ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-21 14:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 14:51       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-21 15:17         ` Peter.Enderborg
2021-07-21 15:34           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-21 15:39             ` Peter.Enderborg
2021-07-21 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-21 18:17   ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-21 18:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-21 18:55       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-07-21 19:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-22 11:28         ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-22 16:40           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-22 17:03             ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-08-26  9:03             ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-22  8:28       ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-23 14:02       ` David Laight
2021-07-21 20:10   ` David Sterba
2021-07-21 20:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-22  5:54       ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-28 20:12 ` Florian Weimer

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