[PATCH v10 0/4] Replace fallback for IO memcpy and IO memset

[David Laight]

From: Julian Vetter
> Sent: 21 October 2024 14:32
> 
> Thank you again for your remarks Arnd and Christoph! I have updated the
> patchset, and placed the functions directly in asm-generic/io.h. I have
> dropped the libs/iomem_copy.c and have updated/clarified the commit
> message in the first patch.

Apart from build 'issues' what is the justification for inlining
these functions?

They are quite large for inlining and some drivers could easily
call them many times.

The I/O cycles themselves are likely to be slow enough that
the cost of a function call is pretty much likely to be noise.

	David

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