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    ARM: 5701/1: ARM: copy_page.S: take into account the size of the cache line · dca230f0
    Kirill A. Shutemov authored
    
    
    Optimized version of copy_page() was written with assumption that cache
    line size is 32 bytes. On Cortex-A8 cache line size is 64 bytes.
    
    This patch tries to generalize copy_page() to work with any cache line
    size if cache line size is multiple of 16 and page size is multiple of
    two cache line size.
    
    After this optimization we've got ~25% speedup on OMAP3(tested in
    userspace).
    
    There is test for kernelspace which trigger copy-on-write after fork():
    
     #include <stdlib.h>
     #include <string.h>
     #include <unistd.h>
    
     #define BUF_SIZE (10000*4096)
     #define NFORK 200
    
     int main(int argc, char **argv)
     {
             char *buf = malloc(BUF_SIZE);
             int i;
    
             memset(buf, 0, BUF_SIZE);
    
             for(i = 0; i < NFORK; i++) {
                     if (fork()) {
                             wait(NULL);
                     } else {
                             int j;
    
                             for(j = 0; j < BUF_SIZE; j+= 4096)
                                     buf[j] = (j & 0xFF) + 1;
                             break;
                     }
             }
    
             free(buf);
             return 0;
     }
    
    Before optimization this test takes ~66 seconds, after optimization
    takes ~56 seconds.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSiarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@nokia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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