Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2017 06:24:27 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] zswap: Same-filled pages handling |
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 09:30:32PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Yes. Every 64-bit repeating pattern is also a 32-bit repeating pattern. > > Supporting a 64-bit pattern on a 32-bit kernel is painful, but it makes > > no sense to *not* support a 64-bit pattern on a 64-bit kernel. > > But a 32bit repeating pattern is not necessarily a 64bit pattern.
Oops, I said it backwards. What I mean is that if you have the repeating pattern:
0x12345678 12345678 12345678 12345678 12345678 12345678
that's the same as the repeating pattern:
0x1234567812345678 1234567812345678 1234567812345678
so the 64-bit kernel is able to find all patterns that the 32-bit kernel is, and more.
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