Re: [PATCH] mm: clear 1G pages with streaming stores on x86

[Andi Kleen]

> > Tested:
> > 	Time to `mlock()` a 512GiB region on broadwell CPU
> > 				AVG time (s)	% imp.	ms/page
> > 	clear_page_erms		133.584		-	261
> > 	clear_page_nt		34.154		74.43%	67
> 
> Some macrobenchmark would be great too.

Yes especially something that actually uses the memory. I suspect you'll need
something like the below

> That patchset is somewhat more complex trying to keep the memory around
> the fault address hot in cache. In theory it should help to reduce latency
> on the first access to the memory.

-Andi