Re: [PATCHV2 3/3] x86, ras: Add mcsafe_memcpy() function to recover from machine checks

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 07:19:58PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) wrote:

...

> Due to the historic long latency of storage devices,
> applications don't re-read from storage again; they
> save the results.
> So, the streaming-load instructions are beneficial:

That's the theory...

Do you also have some actual performance numbers where non-temporal
operations are better than the REP; MOVSB and *actually* show
improvements? And no microbenchmarks please.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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