On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 01:10:21PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > Both, __dax_pmd_fault, and clear_pmem() were taking special steps to > clear memory a page at a time to take advantage of non-temporal > clear_page() implementations. However, x86_64 does not use > non-temporal instructions for clear_page(), and arch_clear_pmem() was > always incurring the cost of __arch_wb_cache_pmem(). > > Clean up the assumption that doing clear_pmem() a page at a time is more > performant. > > Cc: Ross Zwisler <[email protected]> > Reported-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
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