need a fast byteorder changing routine

[Wojciech Kromer]

Użytkownik li napisał:

>Hi all,
>i need do a lot of byteorder changing operation from big-endian to little-endian. cpu_to_le32 is not fast enough for me, does anyone have such a routine written in asm.?
>PS: here is an ugly asm function do such thing:
>void swapbyte(unsigned long *val, unsigned long offset,
>              unsigned long value)
>{
>
>        asm ("lis 3 %0 at ha" : "=r" (val));
>        asm ("lwz 3,%0 at l(3)" : "=r" (val));
>        asm ("stw %1, 0(4)" : "=r" (offset));
>        asm ("stw %2, 0(5)" : "=r" (value));
>        asm ("stwbrx 5, 3, 4");
>}val is the address of value. i used to set this function as inline, but kernel said:
>Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11
>Any comments
>Best Regards!
>Li
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try DIRECT using out_le16/32 in_le16/32 from <asm/io.h>,
this takes same time as one  big endian write/read



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