On Thursday 12 January 2006 02:21, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Andi> movsq? I thought you wanted 32bit IO?
>
> The idea is to do I/O in at least 32-bit chunks to cope with hardware
> that can't handle 8-bit or 16-bit accesses. 64-bit chunks are OK for
> Pathscale hardware.
Well then they can just as well use normal memcpy as long as they don't
pass any sizes % 4 != 0. That should be ok as long as they add a comment
there.
-Andi
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