Here is a patch from Paul Mackerras that improves the ppc64 copy_tofrom_user.
The loop now does 32 bytes at a time and as well as pairing loads and stores.

A quick test case that reads 8kB over and over shows the improvement:

POWER6: 53% faster
POWER7: 51% faster

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

#define BUFSIZE (8 * 1024)
#define ITERATIONS 10000000

int main()
{
	char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/copy_to_user_testXXXXXX";
	int fd;
	char *buf[BUFSIZE];
	unsigned long i;

	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
	if (fd < 0) {
		perror("open");
		exit(1);
	}

	if (write(fd, buf, BUFSIZE) != BUFSIZE) {
		perror("open");
		exit(1);
	}

	for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
		if (pread(fd, buf, BUFSIZE, 0) != BUFSIZE) {
			perror("pread");
			exit(1);
		}
	}

	unlink(tmpfile);

	return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>