Re: [RFC] Optimize swab operations on mips_r2 cpu

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:32:15PM +0100, Franck wrote:

> > ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SMARTMIPS
> > cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32R1)   += \
> >                         $(call 
> > set_gccflags,mips32,smartmips,4kec,mips3,mips2)\
> >                         -Os, -Wa,--trap

-Os has no business here.  That's what CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is for.

> > if the values I threw in for the MIPS32R1+SmartMIPS (e.g. 4KSc) combination
> > would actually work.  I just want to point out that it isn't that hard to 
> > do.
> 
> I agree it's not hard to do. But it becomes more tricky if you want
> something clean that gives best results for every cpus...Moreover I
> don't think your solution avoids maintenence problems IMHO.
> 
> Ralf, could you give your opinion ?

I think I'm going to start by throwing the insane option selection
complexity which was needed for support of gcc 2.95 ... 3.1; a few days
gcc 3.2 became the minimum required to build a 2.6 kernel, then see what
can nicely be implemented.

  Ralf