Rik van Riel writes: > I'm not convinced. Zeroing a page takes 2000-4000 CPU > cycles, while faulting the page from RAM into cache takes > 200-400 CPU cycles per cache line, or 6000-12000 CPU > cycles.
On my G5 it takes ~200 cycles to zero a whole page. In other words it takes about the same time to zero a page as to bring in a single cache line from memory. (PPC has an instruction to establish a whole cache line of zeroes in modified state without reading anything from memory.) Thus I can't see how prezeroing can ever be a win on ppc64. Regards, Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
