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.
:-)
next prev parent 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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