s, I have done perf reports, but they need more explanation than they deserve: in summary, clear_page vanishes, its cache loading shifts into copy_user_generic_unrolled; shmem_getpage_gfp goes down, and surprisingly mark_page_accessed goes way up - I think because they are respectively where the cache gets to be reloaded after being purged by clear or copy. Suggested-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds \~,x