Date: 04 Aug 1999 13:20:59 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()... Message-ID: <xzpemhjpzac.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Kelly Yancey"'s message of "Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:10:15 -0400" References: <001e01bedde3$d1af64c0$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com>
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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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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