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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/8] Avoid cache trashing on clearing huge/gigantic page
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:52:29 +0300
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Clearing a 2MB huge page will typically blow away several levels of CPU
> caches. To avoid this only cache clear the 4K area around the fault
> address and use a cache avoiding clears for the rest of the 2MB area.
>
> This patchset implements cache avoiding version of clear_page only for
> x86. If an architecture wants to provide cache avoiding version of
> clear_page it should to define ARCH_HAS_USER_NOCACHE to 1 and implement
> clear_page_nocache() and clear_user_highpage_nocache().

Patchset looks nice to me, but the changelogs are terribly short of
performance measurements. For this sort of change I do think it is
important that pretty exhaustive testing be performed, and that the
results (or a readable summary of them) be shown. And that testing
should be designed to probe for slowdowns, not just the speedups!




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