Re: [PATCH] Mantaining turnstile aligned to 128 bytes in i386 CPUs

On Thu, 2007-Jan-18 18:03:20 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote:
Alignment is critical. If the data is not aligned, don't bother. 128
bits means 16 byte alignment.

The above benchmark output is for aligned data :-). I don't try hard to
optimize or benchmark misaligned cases.

How realistic is this? Has anyone collected statistics on the size and
alignment of bzero/bcopy calls? How much of the time is the size known
at compile time?

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Peter Jeremy

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