Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263172AbVCXTK1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:10:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263171AbVCXTK1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:10:27 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:32189 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263170AbVCXTKS (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:10:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:03:36 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: Christoph Lameter Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, ak@muc.de, clameter@sgi.com, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, haveblue@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Jens.Maurer@gmx.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order Message-Id: <20050324110336.488241c4.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: References: <200503111008.12134.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <200503181154.37414.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20050318192808.GB38053@muc.de> <16963.2075.713737.485070@napali.hpl.hp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 27 On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:41:06 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter wrote: > So it would be useful to have > > clear_page -> Temporal. Only zaps one page > > and > > clear_pages -> Zaps arbitrary order of page non-temporal > > > Rework the clear_pages patch to do just that? Maybe rename clear_pages > clear_pages_nt? > > prep_zero_page would use a temporal clear for an order 0 page but a > nontemporal clear for higher order pages. That sounds about right to me. Hmmm, I'm inspired to experiment with this on sparc64 a bit. :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/