| Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:59:05 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/22] Add powerpc-specific clear_cacheline(), which just compiles to "dcbz". |
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Hi,
> This is horribly non-portable. How much of a performance difference > does it make? How does it do on ppc64 systems where the cacheline > size is not 32?
Yes, if anything we should catch cacheline aligned, multiple cacheline sized zeroing in memset.
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