Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] riscv: use the generic string routines | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:35:40 +0000 |
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> > These ended up getting rejected by Linus, so I'm going to hold off on > > this for now. If they're really out of lib/ then I'll take the C > > routines in arch/riscv, but either way it's an issue for the next > > release. > Agree, we should take the C routine in arch/riscv for common > implementation. If any vendor what custom implementation they could > use the alternative framework in errata for string operations.
I though the asm ones were significantly faster because they were less affected by read latency.
(But they were horribly broken for misaligned transfers.)
David
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