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SubjectRe: [patch] x86, mm: pass in 'total' to __copy_from_user_*nocache()
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 05:38:13PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 02:48:22 +0100
> Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>
> > > the entire point of using movntq and friends was to save half the
> >
> > I thought the point was to not pollute caches? At least that is
> > what I remember being told when I merged the patch.
> >
>
> the reason that movntq and co are faster is because you avoid the
> write-allocate behavior of the caches....

Not faster than rep ; movs which does similar magic anyways. Of course it being
magic it can vary a lot and is somewhat unpredictable.

Also in my experince movnt is not actually that much faster for small
transfers (as in what the kernel mostly does)

-Andi

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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.


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