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Experiments with the netperf benchmark indicated that the size selecting VMX-based copies in __copy_tofrom_user_power7() was suboptimal on POWER8. Measurements showed that parity was in the neighbourhood of 3328 bytes, rather than greater than 4096. The change gives a 1.5-2.0% improvement in performance for 4096-byte buffers, reducing the relative time spent in __copy_tofrom_user_power7() from approximately 7% to approximately 5% in the TCP_RR benchmark. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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.