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To: "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 04 Aug 1999 13:20:59 +0200
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"Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com> writes:
> [...]

Which reminds me - has anyone thought of using DMA for zeroing pages,
to avoid cache invalidation? The idea is to keep a chunk of zeroes on
disk and DMA it into memory instead of clearing pages "manually". This
assumes your disk supports DMA, of course.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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