[RFC 0/3] powerpc: memory copy routines tweaked for Cell

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Fri Jun 20 09:33:53 EST 2008


Gunnar von Boehn writes:

> I have no results for P5/P6, but I did some tests on JS21 aka PPC-970.
> On PPC-970 the CELL memcpy is faster than the current Linux routine.
> This becomes really visible when you really copy memory-to-memory and are
> not only working in the 2ndlevelcache.

Could you send some more details, like the actual copy speed you
measured and how you did the tests?

Thanks,
Paul.



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