Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> +#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_INV_MEMSCAN
> +void *inv_memscan(void *addr, int c, size_t size)
> +{
> + if (!size)
> + return addr;
> + asm volatile("repz; scasb\n\t"
This will just do the slow byte accesses again internally.
scasb is not normally very optimized in microcode as far
as I know.
Also rep has quite some startup overhead which makes
it a bad idea for small sizes (<16-20 or so)
I would stay with the C version. I bet that one is
faster.
-Andi
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