Messages in this thread | | | Date | 30 May 2005 21:38:23 +0200 | Date | Mon, 30 May 2005 21:38:23 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86-64: Use SSE for copy_page and clear_page |
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> The SSE clear page fuction is almost twice as fast as the kernel's > current clear_page, while the copy_page implementation is roughly a > third faster. This is likely due to the fact that SSE instructions > can keep the 256 bit wide L2 cache bus at a higher utilisation than > 64 bit movs are able to. Comments?
Any use of write combining is wrong here because it forces the destination out of cache, which causes performance issues later on. Believe me we went through this years ago.
If you can code up a better function for P4 that does not use write combining I would be happy to add. I never tuned the functions for P4.
One simple experiment would be to just test if P4 likes the simple rep ; movsq / rep ; stosq loops and enable them.
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