From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> zram was recently enhanced to support compressing pages with a repeating pattern up to the size of an unsigned long. As part of the discussion, we noted it would be nice if architectures had optimised routines to fill regions of memory with patterns larger than those contained in a single byte. Our suspicions were right; the x86 version offers approximately a 7% performance improvement over the C implementation. The generic memfill() function is part of Lars Wirzenius' publib, but it doesn't offer the most convenient interface. I chose to add five more-specific functions as part of this patchset -- memset16(), memset32(), memset64(), memset_l() (long) and memset_p() (pointer). It would be nice to have some more architectures implement optimised memsetN calls. It would also be nice to find more places in the kernel which could benefit from calling these functions. Maybe a coccinelle script could be written to find such places? We're looking for loops over an array where the value being stored into the array does not depend on the iteration variable. Since v1 of the patchset, I stumbled on Alpha's memsetw() which caused me to add memset16() to complete the set. I removed the '__HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET_PLUS' preprocessor symbol in favour of separate MEMSET16 MEMSET32 and MEMSET64 symbols. I also reviewed the scr_mem*w() usages across the different architectures and implemented some obvious missing optimisations. Alpha is still missing scr_memmovew() as it would be non-trivial to write. Russell's review on patch 2 only applies to the memset32/memset64 implementation. The memset16 is unreviewed (and, indeed, untested) to date. Matthew Wilcox (7): Add multibyte memset functions ARM: Implement memset16, memset32 & memset64 x86: Implement memset16, memset32 & memset64 alpha: Add support for memset16 zram: Convert to using memset_l sym53c8xx_2: Convert to use memset32 vga: Optimise console scrolling arch/alpha/include/asm/string.h | 15 ++++---- arch/alpha/include/asm/vga.h | 2 +- arch/alpha/lib/memset.S | 10 +++--- arch/arm/include/asm/string.h | 21 ++++++++++++ arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c | 3 ++ arch/arm/lib/memset.S | 44 +++++++++++++++++++----- arch/mips/include/asm/vga.h | 6 ++++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/vga.h | 8 +++++ arch/sparc/include/asm/vga.h | 24 +++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h | 24 +++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 15 ++------ drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c | 11 ++---- include/linux/string.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++ include/linux/vt_buffer.h | 12 +++++++ lib/string.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 16 files changed, 287 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
