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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Jens.Maurer@gmx.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:34:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16963.2075.713737.485070@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050318192808.GB38053@muc.de>

>>>>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:28:08 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> said:

  >> stores in general for clearing pages? I checked and Itanium has
  >> always used non-temporal stores. So there will be no benefit for
  >> us from this

  Andi> That is weird. I would actually try to switch to temporal
  Andi> stores, maybe it will improve some benchmarks.

That's definitely the case.  See my earlier post on this topic:

  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/linux-ia64/0409/11012.html

Unfortunately, nobody reported any results for larger machines and/or
more interesting workloads, so the patch is in limbo at this time.
Clearly, if the CPU that's clearing the page is likely to use that
same page soon after, it'd be useful to use temporal stores.

	--david

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-24 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <1110490683.24355.17.camel@localhost>
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503101702120.15940@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
     [not found]     ` <200503111008.12134.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2005-03-17  1:33       ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher Christoph Lameter
2005-03-18  9:54         ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-18 15:00           ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher Christoph Lameter
2005-03-18 19:28             ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order Andi Kleen
2005-03-18 20:19               ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher Christoph Lameter
2005-03-20  0:20               ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-24 18:34               ` David Mosberger [this message]
2005-03-24 18:41                 ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher Christoph Lameter
2005-03-24 19:03                   ` David S. Miller
2005-03-24 22:49                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-24 23:13                       ` David S. Miller
2005-03-25  2:29                       ` David S. Miller
2005-03-25  2:43                         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-27 17:12                 ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order Andi Kleen
2005-03-27 18:23                   ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher David S. Miller
2005-03-29  1:58                   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-06  0:15                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-06  0:23                   ` David Mosberger
2005-04-06  0:33                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-06  4:48                       ` David Mosberger
2005-04-06  5:15         ` [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order Gerrit Huizenga
2005-04-06 16:03           ` Grant Grundler

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