linux-kernel - Re: [v3 0/9] parallelized "struct page" zeroing

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Date:   Wed, 10 May 2017 11:20:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pasha.tatashin@...cle.com
Cc:     mhocko@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        borntraeger@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [v3 0/9] parallelized "struct page" zeroing

From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
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.