[MM] slab.c : prefetchw the start of new allocated objects
Most of objects returned by __cache_alloc() will be written by the caller,
(but not all callers want to write all the object, but just at the begining)
prefetchw() tells the modern CPU to think about the future writes, ie start
some memory transactions in advance.
Some CPU lacks a prefetchw() and currently do nothing, so I ask this question :
Should'nt make prefetchw() do at least a prefetch() ? A read hint is better than nothing.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
diff -Nru linux-2.6.13-rc4/mm/slab.c linux-2.6.13-rc4-ed/mm/slab.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc4/mm/slab.c 2005-07-29 00:44:44.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc4-ed/mm/slab.c 2005-07-29 10:48:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -2166,6 +2166,7 @@
}
local_irq_restore(save_flags);
objp = cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(cachep, flags, objp, __builtin_return_address(0));
+ prefetchw(objp);
return objp;
}
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