[coreboot] [PATCH] use memset

[Myles Watson]

> Am 11.03.2010 22:14, schrieb Myles Watson:
> > I was having trouble with stack corruption.  Using memset (C) instead of
> > clear_memory(asm) speeds it up by almost a factor of 2 for a 1M region.
I should have said it got rid of the memory corruption I was seeing, too :)

> > TSC difference with clear_memory 0xFA884D
> > TSC difference with memset 0x826742
> Interesting that the C version is faster in this case.
Yeah.  Maybe you could do a lot better with a different asm implementation.
You'd hope that the compiler would have a pretty good routine for clearing
memory, though.  I didn't dig into it to see what the real difference was.

> > SIgned-off-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com
> <mailto:mylesgw at gmail.com>>
> Acked-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick.georgi at coresystems.de>
Rev 5201.

Thanks,
Myles