I blame Mikey for this. He elevated my slightly dubious testcase:
to benchmark status. And naturally we need to be number 1 at creating
zeros. So lets improve __clear_user some more.
As Paul suggests we can use dcbz for large lengths. This patch gets
the destination cacheline aligned then uses dcbz on whole cachelines.
Before:
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.414744 s, 25.3 GB/s
After:
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.268597 s, 39.0 GB/s
39 GB/s, a new record.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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