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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/7] x86/boot: Introduce helpers for serial I/O
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:34:47PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 04:20:01PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > By name and by what it's handling (only byte accesses to I/O or MMIO).
>
> Your series does only byte accesses so you can use byte variant.
>
> > My point is, that doing branch(es) on each I/O call is not good as simple
> > calling the proper (pre-defined) I/O accessor.
>
> What branches?

Something like this at the end

if (mmio32)
...
else if (mmio)
...
else if (whatever)
...
else
...

> You do a branch and *then* you do an IO call.

Yes.

> What does "not good" even mean?

We still export global flag variable, on top of this we need an additional
branch which we can avoid for free.

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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