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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
