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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2012-12-20 01:16:20 +0000
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2013-01-28 08:48:57 -0800
commit83a57a4de1a222c351667ef9a0fedaac1295e85b (patch)
tree5c9d477685a12712c45c527f165388a951b76fdb /arch/x86/kernel
parentf317820cb6ee3fb173319bf76e0e62437be78ad2 (diff)
x86: Enable ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
With -mmovbe enabled (implicit with -march=atom), this allows the compiler to use the movbe instruction. This doesn't have a significant effect on code size (unlike on PowerPC), because the movbe instruction actually takes as many bytes to encode as a simple mov and a bswap. But for Atom in particular I believe it should give a performance win over the mov+bswap alternative. That was kind of why movbe was invented in the first place, after all... I've done basic functionality testing with IPv6 and Legacy IP, but no performance testing. The EFI firmware on my test box unfortunately no longer starts up. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1355966180.18919.102.camel@shinybook.infradead.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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