Re: bh_lru_install

From: David S. Miller
Date: Tue Jul 27 2004 - 18:46:24 EST


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:06:17 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But I don't recall seeing bh_lru_install() standing out on profiles. I
> expect that when the system is working hard we're averaging nearly zero
> cache misses in that copy. Do you really think it is worth optimising?

On a full kernel build after a fresh boot, that memcpy() executes
approximately 400K times on my sparc64 boxes.
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