linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 6/8] zram: Convert to using memset

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:45:37 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     minchan@...nel.org, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        akpm@...uxfoundation.org, mpe@...erman.id.au
Subject: [PATCH v4 6/8] zram: Convert to using memset_l

From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>

zram was the motivation for creating memset_l().  Minchan Kim sees a 7%
performance improvement on x86 with 100MB of non-zero deduplicatable
data:

        perf stat -r 10 dd if=/dev/zram0 of=/dev/null

vanilla:        0.232050465 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.51% )
memset_l:	0.217219387 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.07% )

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 13 ++-----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 856d5dc02451..2df50d82dc29 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -175,20 +175,11 @@ static inline void update_used_max(struct zram *zram,
 	} while (old_max != cur_max);
 }
 
-static inline void zram_fill_page(char *ptr, unsigned long len,
+static inline void zram_fill_page(void *ptr, unsigned long len,
 					unsigned long value)
 {
-	int i;
-	unsigned long *page = (unsigned long *)ptr;
-
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED(len, sizeof(unsigned long)));
-
-	if (likely(value == 0)) {
-		memset(ptr, 0, len);
-	} else {
-		for (i = 0; i < len / sizeof(*page); i++)
-			page[i] = value;
-	}
+	memset_l(ptr, value, len / sizeof(unsigned long));
 }
 
 static bool page_same_filled(void *ptr, unsigned long *element)
-- 
2.13.2