From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 11:01:40 -0400 > Perhaps you are right, and I will measure on x86. But, I suspect hit > can become unacceptable on some platfoms: there is an overhead of > calling a function, even if it is leaf-optimized, and there is an > overhead in memset() to check for alignments of size and address, > types of setting (zeroing vs. non-zeroing), etc., that adds up > quickly. Another source of overhead on the sparc64 side is that we much do memory barriers around the block initializiing stores. So batching calls to memset() amortize that as well. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
