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    SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC 0/6] Avoid cache trashing on clearing huge/gigantic page
    On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

    > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    >
    > Clearing a 2MB huge page will typically blow away several levels of CPU
    > caches. To avoid this only cache clear the 4K area around the fault
    > address and use a cache avoiding clears for the rest of the 2MB area.

    why exempt the 4K around the fault address? Is there a regression if that
    is not exempted?

    I guess for anonymous huge pages one may assume that there will be at
    least one write to one cache line in the 4k page. Is it useful to get all
    the cachelines in the page in the cache.

    Also note that if we get later into hugepage use for the page cache we
    would want the cache to be cold because the contents have to come in from
    a storage medium.




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