Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jan 2017 13:45:18 +0900 | From | Sergey Senozhatsky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: extend zero pages to same element pages for zram |
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On (01/22/17 10:58), zhouxianrong wrote: > 1. memset is just set a int value but i want to set a long value.
ah... ok. because you union it with the handle.
> 2. using clear_page rather than memset MAYBE due to in arm64 arch > it is a 64-bytes operations.
clear_page() basically does memset(), which is quite well optimized. except for arm64, yes.
> 6.6.4. Data Cache Zero > > The ARMv8-A architecture introduces a Data Cache Zero by Virtual Address (DC ZVA) instruction. This enables a block of 64 > bytes in memory, aligned to 64 bytes in size, to be set to zero. If the DC ZVA instruction misses in the cache, it clears main > memory, without causing an L1 or L2 cache allocation. > > but i only consider the arm64 arch, other archs need to be reviewed.
thaks for the reply.
-ss
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