On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> ERMS? >> >> It's the fast string extension, aka Enhanced REP MOV STOS. On CPUs >> with that feature (and not disabled via MSR), plain ol' rep movs is >> the fastest way to copy bytes. I think this includes all Intel CPUs >> from SNB onwards. > > Ah ... very fast at copying .. but currently not machine check recoverable. Hmm, I assume for the pmem driver I'll want to check at runtime if the cpu has machine check recovery and fall back to the faster copy if it's not available? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>