On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 20:39, Rene Rebe wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I also consider the kprint message a useability bug - and this is why
> I posted a patch that prints out that the algorithm is choosen to
> write "arround" the L2 cache ... - We patch this in our ROCK Linux
> standard patches ...
I would vote for such a cosmetic patch to be included...
Soeren.
> On: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:45:04 +0100,
> Lionel Bouton <Lionel.Bouton@inet6.fr> wrote:
> > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> >
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >I really do wonder whether the displayed message is wrong or why it
> > >always chooses the slowest checksumming function (happens with 2.4.19 -
> > >21pre3)
> > >
> > >
> > SSE is always preferred because unlike other checksumming code it
> > doesn't use the processor caches when reading/writing data/checksum.
> > This is slower (if several GB/s can be considered slow) for the
> > checksumming but far better for the overall system performance.
> >
> > LB.
>
> - René
>
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