[patch] Adding optimized kernel copying support - Part III

[Attilio Rao]

Sorry, but I unforgot one thing so, please, redownload the patch now.

Attilio

2006/5/31, Attilio Rao <asmrookie at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> this is the last release which is rather finished and complete for the project.
>
> I tested for consistency for a long time and the FPU handling
> mechanism seems very robust so as copyin/copyout do.
>
> What I'm looking for, at this point, are testers for peroformances.
> What is proposed in the patch is one of the better solutions for UP
> archs (not running with PREEMPTION) but more general cases might be
> handled with time.
>
> I hope that somebody wants to play with him, giving suggestions and
> doing different benchmarks.
>
> The code can be found here:
> http://users.gufi.org/~rookie/works/patches/xmmcopy_6_1.diff
>
> and is for RELEASE_6_1 in order to have a wider range of testers (a
> diff against HEAD will be available ASAP).
>
> Please keep in mind that this is not a complete rip of DflyBSD code
> beacause it is different in a lot of parts.
>
> For any kind of tecnical questions, please mail me.
>
> Attilio
>
> PS: a particular thanks goes to Bruce Evans for his benchmarks and
> feedbacks about code structure
>
>
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