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Commit 95108fa3 authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar
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x86: usercopy: check for total size when deciding non-temporal cutoff



Impact: make more types of copies non-temporal

This change makes the following simple fix:

  30d697fa: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall

A bit more sophisticated: we check the 'total' number of bytes
written to decide whether to copy in a cached or a non-temporal
way.

This will for example cause the tail (modulo 4096 bytes) chunk
of a large write() to be non-temporal too - not just the page-sized
chunks.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 3255aa2e
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