forked from mirrors/linux
Nagai's Linux kernel implementation, with patches
ca6eaaa210
This patch will reduce cpu usage dramatically in kernel space especially for application which use sys-call with large buffer size, such as network applications. The main reason behind this is that every unaligned memory access will raise exceptions and switch between s-mode and m-mode causing large overhead. First copy in bytes until reaches the first word aligned boundary in destination memory address. This is the preparation before the bulk aligned word copy. The destination address is aligned now, but oftentimes the source address is not in an aligned boundary. To reduce the unaligned memory access, it reads the data from source in aligned boundaries, which will cause the data to have an offset, and then combines the data in the next iteration by fixing offset with shifting before writing to destination. The majority of the improving copy speed comes from this shift copy. In the lucky situation that the both source and destination address are on the aligned boundary, perform load and store with register size to copy the data. Without the unrolling, it will reduce the speed since the next store instruction for the same register using from the load will stall the pipeline. At last, copying the remainder in one byte at a time. Signed-off-by: Akira Tsukamoto <akira.tsukamoto@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> |
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| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
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| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
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| README | ||
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.