Re: memfill

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Feb 07 2017 - 04:40:13 EST


Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [adding linux-arch to see if anyone there wants to do an optimised
> version of memfill for their CPU]

For mn10300, this is superfluous since the memset() implementation will do
optimised filling of up to 8 x 4 bytes per loop if the alignments suit.

This is also superfluous for frv as that will do up to 8 x 8 bytes per loop.

So on both those arches, memfill() should probably just wrap memset().

David