lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2011]   [Sep]   [9]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
Date
SubjectRe: x86 memcpy performance
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> which looks like pretty nice numbers to me. I can't say whether there
> ever is 16K buffer we copy in the kernel but if there were...

Kernel memcpy's are basically almost always smaller than a page size,
because that tends to be the fundamental allocation size.

Yes, there are exceptions that copy into big vmalloc'ed buffers, but
they don't tend to matter. Things like module loading etc.

Linus


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2011-09-09 16:41    [W:2.005 / U:0.032 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site