> A few years ago when K7s were not ancient yet, after hearing > argument for and against non-temporal stores, > I decided to finally figure it for myself. > > I tested kernel build workload on two kernels with the only > one difference - clear_page with and without non-temporal stores. > > "Non-temporal stores" kernel was faster, not slower. Just a little bit, > but reproducibly. I did the same experiments and in my case (K8) they were slower in real-world benchmarks for clear_page (but faster in micro benchmarks) But I didn't propose non temporal anyways. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
