Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:39:18 -0700 | Subject | Re: x86 memcpy performance |
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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
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