Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm, clear_huge_page: use clear_page_uncached() for gigantic pages

On 2020-10-14 8:28 a.m., Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ankur Arora wrote: Uncached writes are suitable for circumstances where the region written to is not expected to be read again soon, or the region written to is large enough that there's no expectation that we will find the writes in the cache.

Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm, clear_huge_page: use clear_page_uncached() for gigantic pages

* Ankur Arora wrote: > Uncached writes are suitable for circumstances where the region written to > is not expected to be read again soon, or the region written to is large > enough that there's no expectation that we will find the writes in the > cache. > > Accordingly switch to using

[PATCH 6/8] mm, clear_huge_page: use clear_page_uncached() for gigantic pages

Uncached writes are suitable for circumstances where the region written to is not expected to be read again soon, or the region written to is large enough that there's no expectation that we will find the writes in the cache. Accordingly switch to using clear_page_uncached() for gigantic pages.