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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, ak@muc.de, clameter@sgi.com,
	vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, haveblue@us.ibm.com,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 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 11:03:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050324110336.488241c4.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503241038040.5663@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:41:06 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> wrote:

> So it would be useful to have
> 
> clear_page 	-> Temporal. Only zaps one page
> 
> 	and
> 
> clear_pages	-> Zaps arbitrary order of page non-temporal
> 
> 
> Rework the clear_pages patch to do just that? Maybe rename clear_pages
> clear_pages_nt?
> 
> prep_zero_page would use a temporal clear for an order 0 page but a
> nontemporal clear for higher order pages.

That sounds about right to me.

Hmmm, I'm inspired to experiment with this on sparc64 a bit.
:-)

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-24 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-10 20:35 [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order Christoph Lameter
2005-03-10 21:38 ` Dave Hansen
2005-03-10 22:46   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-11  1:03   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-11  8:08     ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-17  1:33       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-18  9:54         ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-18 15:00           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-18 19:28             ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-18 20:19               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-21 15:30               ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-24 18:34               ` David Mosberger
2005-03-24 18:41                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-24 19:03                   ` David S. Miller [this message]
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                 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-27 18:23                   ` 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                         ` Gerrit Huizenga
2005-04-06 16:03                           ` Grant Grundler
2005-03-18 10:12       ` Andi Kleen

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