Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)
Tom Leete (tleete@mountain.net)
Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:53:59 -0500
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> We have a very large number of memcpy's of unknown short length (often in
> interrupts) that are close to branches. A lot of
>
> if(foo==NULL)
> return
> memcpy(..
>
> stuff for example.
>
> Im more than happy for someone to do the benches and prove me wrong
Agreed, that is a bad case, and there is overhead for it in my patch. I'm
putting together some metrics, will post results here.
Regards,
Tom
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