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For non-alising Dcache, vmalloc is not needed. vmalloc triggers additonal D-TLB Misses in the perf interrupt code path making it slightly inefficient as evident from hackbench runs below. | [ARCLinux]# perf stat -e dTLB-load-misses --repeat 5 hackbench | Running with 10*40 (== 400) tasks. | Time: 35.060 | ... | Performance counter stats for 'hackbench' (5 runs): Before: 399235 dTLB-load-misses ( +- 2.08% ) After : 397676 dTLB-load-misses ( +- 2.27% ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.