Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 May 2020 11:07:31 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: check to see if SIMD registers are available before using SIMD |
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 04:10:16PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which > have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the > pattern is to check for may_use_simd() and then fallback to using > something slower in the unlikely case SIMD registers aren't available. > So, this patch fixes up i915's accelerated memcpy routines to fallback > to boring memcpy if may_use_simd() is false.
Err, why does i915 implements its own uncached memcpy instead of relying on core functionality to start with?
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