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Anton Blanchard authored
Implement a POWER7 optimised memcpy using VMX and enhanced prefetch instructions. This is a copy of the POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user loop. Detailed implementation and performance details can be found in commit a66086b8 (powerpc: POWER7 optimised copy_to_user/copy_from_user using VMX). I noticed memcpy issues when profiling a RAID6 workload: .memcpy .async_memcpy .async_copy_data .__raid_run_ops .handle_stripe .raid5d .md_thread I created a simplified testcase by building a RAID6 array with 4 1GB ramdisks (booting with brd.rd_size=1048576): # mdadm -CR -e 1.2 /dev/md0 --level=6 -n4 /dev/ram[0-3] I then timed how long it took to write to the entire array: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1M Before: 892 MB/s After: 999 MB/s A 12% improvement. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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