Re: [PATCH v3] zram: extend zero pages to same element pages

[zhouxianrong <zhouxianrong@huawei.com>]

i am not sure as well about reverse hurting cache.

On 2017/1/23 14:13, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 01:47:20PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> When I look at first patch, I wanted to use increment loop but didn't
>> tell to you because that small piece of code is no harmful for readbility
>> to me so I want to keep author's code rather than pointing the trivial
>> which is just matter of preference out.
>>
>> Rather than readiblity, I suspect it might hurt performance and talked
>> with Namhyung but we cannot find anything decremental loop is bad
>> compared to incremental. Rather than, many articles have been said
>> decrement loop is faster like zhouxianrong's mentiond although I don't
>> think it makes marginal difference.
>>
>> Joonsoo, why do you think incremental is faster?
>> zhouxianrong, why do you think decrement loops makes cache problem?
>>
>> I'm okay either way. Just want to know why you guys think about it.
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> Hmm... I guess that cache prefetcher works better for forward access
> but I'm not sure.
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> Thanks.
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