Improved copy_page() function, about 30% speed up for mpc860!

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at lumentis.se
Thu Mar 6 04:50:16 EST 2003


> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:19:04AM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > > > from http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/200303/msg00022.html
> > >
> > > Well, the whole change is at:
> > > http://ppc.bkbits.net:8080/linuxppc_2_4_devel/cset@1.118.1.428?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-1d
> > >
> > > So, that should give it more context and make it clearer, I hope..

FYI, I undid the above patch and then dcbz failed horribly. Linux
just locks up. Using my BDI2000 I tried to single step over the offending dcbz
and it never got past it.

 Jocke


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