Commit 83a57a4d authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse Committed by H. Peter Anvin

x86: Enable ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP

With -mmovbe enabled (implicit with -march=atom), this allows the
compiler to use the movbe instruction. This doesn't have a significant
effect on code size (unlike on PowerPC), because the movbe instruction
actually takes as many bytes to encode as a simple mov and a bswap. But
for Atom in particular I believe it should give a performance win over
the mov+bswap alternative. That was kind of why movbe was invented in
the first place, after all...

I've done basic functionality testing with IPv6 and Legacy IP, but no
performance testing. The EFI firmware on my test box unfortunately no
longer starts up.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1355966180.18919.102.camel@shinybook.infradead.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
parent f317820c
......@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ config X86
select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64
select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32
select GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK
select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
def_bool y
......
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