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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:00:36 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Mark Brown" <simm_s_list@hotmail.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uiomove (CPU) performance? 
Message-ID:  <200112140400.fBE40al06791@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Mark Brown" <simm_s_list@hotmail.com>  of "Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:06:42 EST." <OE435dRuYnZlmDVRXGs00001ade@hotmail.com> 

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> The code is kernel mode so I do not think the memcopy routine uses uiomove
> in this case(I could be wrong). Also this code is multiplatform so
> that the general code uses memcopy and developers optimize the code to work
> on the different platforms they are in. Speed is not my
> concern right now because we can max out the speed of the device we are
> copying from. Our problem lies in the CPU utilization. Will
> uiomove be better than memcopy in that respect or the same?

Since the restriction is memory bandwidth for the copy, performance is
unlikely to be much different.

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