Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:06:36AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
>  > The latest code drop from Martin includes fetching the cache line size
>  > with the machdep.cachelinesize sysctl.
> 
> While I haven't looked at the code yet (at all :-), I have some
> comments that may or may not be useful:
> 
> 	(1) The cacheline size should be cached.  I.e. check it, if
> 	    zero, then do the sysctl to fetch it, otherwise just
> 	    use the cached value.
> 
> 	(2) An optimized bzero() is cool, but the standard API is
> 	    memset().  I suppose you want to check to see if the
> 	    value argument to memset() is 0 (which should be an
> 	    extremely common case) and branch to the optimized
> 	    zero loop if so.

"Read the code" :-)

The cacheline size is cached, and there's both memset() and bzero()
entry points.

Simon.
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