Re: Memset very slow

Alan Cox
2011-02-03T21:29:33Z

> So, my question is, can someone explain to me what is going on here? I am
> not convinced this is a kernel problem just because a new kernel fixed it;
> but, if there were changes related to this in the kernel, then what is the
> oldest version I should be looking at to fix my issues?

The newer kernel does several things that may be relevant - the obvious
one is that it rewrites and corrects MTRR data if it doesn't like what
the BIOS handed out. That would fit with dramatic slowdowns in memory
performance being fixed.