Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:06:51 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: mkp@wildopensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] General purpose zeroed page slab
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:42:10 +0100
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> I disagree with Andi over the dumbness
> of zeroing the whole page.  That makes it cache-hot, which is what you
> want from a page you allocate from slab.

Not for a page table, which tends to be not fully used.
It would be true for a user page, but that doesn't use this mechanism anyways.

-Andi
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