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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:03:34 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86:Improve memset with general 64bit instruction
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:11:59PM +0800, Ling Ma wrote:
> Any further comments  ?

It would be good to test on some more machines that you don't cause
regressions.

But I'm not aware of any workload that is doing a lot of memset (not
counting clear_page).  Copies likely matter much more.

-Andi