[PATCH v6 3/4] powerpc/lib: implement strlen() in assembly

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jun 13 13:58:24 AEST 2018


Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr> writes:

> Le 12/06/2018 à 16:53, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:14:53AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>> ---
>>> Not tested on PPC64.
>> 
>> It won't be acceptable until that happens.  It also is likely quite bad
>> performance on all 64-bit CPUs from the last fifteen years or so.  Or you
>> did nothing to prove otherwise, at least.
>
> Will it be as bad as the generic implementation which does it byte per 
> byte ?
>
> I don't have any 64 bits target, can someone test it using the test app 
> I have added in selftests ?

I /can/ but I won't have time this week.

> Or should I just leave it as is for 64 bits and just do the 
> implementation for 32 bits until someone wants to try and do it for PPC64 ?

That's probably best yeah.

cheers


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