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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clear_user_highpage()
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:09:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040812110924.0713f5d9.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040811194545.0034428b.davem@redhat.com>

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:45:45 -0700
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 04:08:25 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > I discovered this the hard way on Opteron too. At some point
> > I was doing clear_page using cache bypassing write combining stores.
> > That was done because it was faster in microbenchmarks that just
> > tested the function. But on actual macro benchmarks it was quite
> > bad because the applications were eating cache misses all the time.
> 
> Do these cache-bypassing stores use the L2 cache on a hit?

No, they invalidate the cache.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-12  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-11 23:15 clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-11 23:31 ` clear_user_highpage() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-11 23:55   ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12  0:03     ` clear_user_highpage() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-12  1:18       ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-12  2:11       ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
2004-08-12  9:23         ` clear_user_highpage() Martin Schwidefsky
2004-08-11 23:46 ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-11 23:53   ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12  0:00     ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12  0:06       ` clear_user_highpage() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-12  0:24         ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12  0:23       ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12  1:46         ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12  2:51           ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-16  1:58         ` clear_user_highpage() Paul Mackerras
2004-08-12  2:08       ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
2004-08-12  2:45         ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12  9:09           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-08-12 19:50             ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 20:00               ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
2004-08-12 20:30                 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 21:34               ` clear_user_highpage() Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-13  8:16                 ` clear_user_highpage() David Mosberger
2004-08-12  0:00   ` clear_user_highpage() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-12  0:21     ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12  0:46   ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-12  1:01     ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12  2:18     ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12  2:43       ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12  4:19         ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12  4:46           ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-15  6:22             ` clear_user_highpage() Andrew Morton
2004-08-15  6:38               ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-12  2:57       ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12  3:20       ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-13 21:41       ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-16 13:00         ` clear_user_highpage() David Mosberger
2004-08-22 19:51           ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2005-09-17 19:01             ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
2005-09-17 19:16               ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen

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