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SubjectRe: efficient copy_to_user and copy_from_user routines in Linux Kernel
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> > I changed tcp to use a different copy if either source or dest were
> > not eight-byte aligned, and found that the resulting improvement
> > across a mixed networking load was only 1%. Your numbers are higher,
> > so perhaps there are different alignments in the mix...
>
> Did you look at sender or changed both of the functions?

I changed it to use csum_copy_from_user() instead of copy_from_user()
if the source and dest weren't 8-byte aligned. No other changes
in there.

> After that accident TCP was changed and it does not use copy_from_user more,
> it does copy_and_csum even when no checksum is required. So, his results
> on sender side (except for strange anomaly at msg size 8K) just confirm
> nil effect of copy_from_user.

Yup.

> What's about copy_to_user, we forgot about this at all,
> worrying mostly about sender side. :-)

We didn't really forget, but we were trying to get a 2.4 kernel out,
so it became a "fix in 2.5" item. You're right, we should fix it in
2.4.

I wrote a little app to test this - it times a couple of copy algorithms
at all possible alignments. It may be useful for someone... http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/cptimer.tar.gz
I think it covers everything - uncached/cache source/dest,
all possible transfer alignemnts.

The cost of getting it wrong is, iirc, 40% slowdown. In the
kernel's single most expensive function.

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