From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: replace "memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE)" calls with "clear_page()"?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:45:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167518748.20929.578.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612301705250.16056@localhost.localdomain>
> i don't see how that can be true, given that most of the definitions
> of the clear_page() macro are simply invocations of memset(). see for
> yourself:
*MOST*. Not all.
For example an SSE version will at least assume 16 byte alignment, etc
etc.
clear_page() is supposed to be for full real pages only... for example
it allows the architecture to optimize for alignment, cache aliasing etc
etc. (and if there are cpus that get a "clear an entire page"
instruction.... there has been hardware like that in the past, even on
x86, just it's no longer sold afaik)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-30 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-29 6:16 Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-30 20:49 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-12-30 22:08 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-30 22:40 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-03 6:23 ` dean gaudet
2006-12-30 22:45 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-12-30 23:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-31 18:39 ` Paul Mundt
2006-12-31 19:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-01 1:59 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-01-01 8:33 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-01 10:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-01 10:27 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-01 19:05 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-01 8:42 ` Paul Mundt
2007-01-01 17:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-31 13:39 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-12-31 13:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-31 16:39 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-31 17:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-03 13:20 ` Robert P. J. Day
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