Re: memcpy and prefetch

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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:07:45PM -0800, David Daney wrote:

> The Cavium OCTEON port overrides the default memcpy and does use  
> prefetch.  It was recently merged (2.6.29-rc2).  Look at octeon-memcpy.S
>
> I have thought that memcpy could be generated by mm/page.c as copy_page  
> and clear_page are.

No, these two only generate copy_page and clear_page.  I and Thiemo were
considering to extend this to a full memcopy however.

  Ralf


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