Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:47:47 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] General purpose zeroed page slab |
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:08:49PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > BTW, zeroing with non-temporal stores may be a huge win here. > It is 300% faster on Athlon.
That assumes the page isn't going to be reused quickly. The point of slab is that the page does get reused quickly. So you *want* the data to be hot in cache.
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