Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> We have a very large number of memcpy's of unknown short length (often in
> interrupts) that are close to branches. A lot of
> 
>         if(foo==NULL)
>                 return
>         memcpy(..
> 
> stuff for example.
> 
> Im more than happy for someone to do the benches and prove me wrong

Agreed, that is a bad case, and there is overhead for it in my patch. I'm
putting together some metrics, will post results here.

Regards,
Tom

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