[PATCH] Remove small copy optimization from xsputn

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Thu Mar 29 12:37:00 GMT 2012


On 03/29/2012 12:52 AM, David Miller wrote:
> Any objections?
> 
> 2012-03-28  David S. Miller  <davem@davemloft.net>
> 
> 	* libio/fileops.c (_IO_new_file_xsputn): Don't try to optimize
> 	small copies by hand.

None from me.

Amusingly, I can imagine gcc's vector pattern recognizer turning
the byte-at-time loop back into a memmove.  ;-)


r~



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