Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:53:00 +0200
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de, hpa@zytor.com,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Use __builtin_memset and __builtin_memcpy for
 memset/memcpy
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:06 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> > 
> 
> The patch looks good, but is there a reason to keep it architecture
> specific? I would guess that the same logic applies to all
> architectures with gcc-4.x and could be put into
> include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h.

there are some requirements on the architecture for this to work....
and as always with compiler things, the tradeoffs and how well it works
will vary per architecture.

If the architectures in large majority make this switch we could move it
generic... but it's a bit early for that.


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