Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751705AbWAKRnZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:43:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751707AbWAKRnZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:43:25 -0500 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:16303 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751705AbWAKRnZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:43:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32 From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Andrew Morton Cc: Sam Ravnborg , hch@infradead.org, rdreier@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060111093019.097d156a.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1136909276.32183.28.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060110170722.GA3187@infradead.org> <1136915386.6294.8.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060110175131.GA5235@infradead.org> <1136915714.6294.10.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060110140557.41e85f7d.akpm@osdl.org> <1136932162.6294.31.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060110153257.1aac5370.akpm@osdl.org> <1137000032.11245.11.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> <20060111172216.GA18292@mars.ravnborg.org> <20060111093019.097d156a.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:43:19 -0800 Message-Id: <1137001400.11245.31.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 538 Lines: 15 On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 09:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Sure, attribute(weak) assumes that nobody want to implement the thing as an > inline. Are yu sure that we want to do that? I'll take a look at whether the extra call/ret indirection affects performance in a measurable fashion.