The copied data is accessed in part soon after and it results with additional
cache misses during a -j 1 buildkernel WITHOUT_CTF=yes KERNFAST=1, as measured
with pmc stat.
before:
256165411 cache-references # 0.003 refs/inst
15105408 cache-misses # 5.897%
20.70 real # 99.67% cpu
13.24 user # 63.94% cpu
7.40 sys # 35.73% cpu
after:
256764469 cache-references # 0.003 refs/inst
11913551 cache-misses # 4.640%
20.70 real # 99.67% cpu
13.19 user # 63.73% cpu
7.44 sys # 35.95% cpu
Note the real time did not change, but traffic to RAM was reduced (multiple
measurements performed with switching the implementation at runtime).
Since nobody else is using non-temporal for this and there is no apparent
benefit at least these days, don't use them either.
Side note is that pagecopy arguments should probably get reversed to not
have to flip them around in the primitive.
Discussed with: jeff
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