Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO

Adrian Cox (apc@agelectronics.co.uk)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:28:54 +0000


yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:

> It depends on how you do it, on the architecture,
> and on what you measure. Lmbench is an
> invaluable hint, but it is not definitive. If kernel compiles speed
> up by 20%, you knpw something.

Assuming this is on PowerPC, how much of this saving comes from avoiding
flush_page_to_ram()?

- Adrian Cox, AG Electronics

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