[PATCH v7 07/11] sparc64: optimized struct page zeroing
Pasha Tatashin
pasha.tatashin at oracle.com
Wed Aug 30 23:19:58 AEST 2017
Hi Dave,
Thank you for acking.
The reason I am not doing initializing stores is because they require a
membar, even if only regular stores are following (I hoped to do a
membar before first load). This is something I was thinking was not
true, but after consulting with colleagues and checking processor
manual, I verified that it is the case.
Pasha
>
> You should probably use initializing stores when you are doing 8
> stores and we thus know the page struct is cache line aligned.
>
> But other than that:
>
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
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