Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 May 2002 09:09:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap. |
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On Wed, 22 May 2002, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Its festering quietly in the glibc source tree where all large and > > dubiously justifiable hacks seem to end up > > In such case, linus, here is your "reasonable" example. For PPro, it > is faster to copy out-of-order, and if we wanted to use that for > copy_to_user, you'd have your example.
Hey, you didn't read Alan's email.
The fact that glibc may use it is a strike _against_ your example.
Have you looked at glibc performance lately?
Linus
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