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Date:   Fri, 25 May 2018 15:38:26 +0000
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 -mm 0/4] mm, huge page: Copy target sub-page last
 when copy huge page
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On Thu, 24 May 2018, Huang, Ying wrote:

> If the cache contention is heavy when copying the huge page, and we
> copy the huge page from the begin to the end, it is possible that the
> begin of huge page is evicted from the cache after we finishing
> copying the end of the huge page.  And it is possible for the
> application to access the begin of the huge page after copying the
> huge page.

Isnt there a better way to zero the remaining pages? Something that has no
cache impact like a non temporal store? So the remaining cache will not be
evicted?

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/MOVNTI.html