[PATCH] aarch64: optimized memcpy implementation for thunderx2

Anton Youdkevitch anton.youdkevitch@bell-sw.com
Mon Oct 1 15:46:00 GMT 2018


I will send the benchmark data right away.

On 01.10.2018 18:41, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 01/10/18 9:07 PM, Steve Ellcey wrote:
>> Anton is doing this work under a contract with Cavium.  Cavium has a
>> corporate copyright assignment on file with FSF so I am hoping that
>> is sufficient for Anton to make contributions.  I don't have my login
>> to fencepost anymore so I can't double check the specifics of the
>> Cavium copyright assignment myself but my understanding is that it is
>> a general one that does not restrict contributions to be from just
>> a list of specific people.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification Steve.  That should be sufficient assuming 
> that Anton's work is owned by Cavium.
> 
> As for the patch itself, I'll leave it to you for a deeper review since 
> you're the better judge for tx2 performance.  It would still be nice to 
> see the results from memcpy-walk and not just memcpy-large, assuming 
> that's what Anton tested with.
> 
> The patch needs a ChangeLog too.
> 
> Thanks,
> Siddhesh



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