Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:41:40 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PG_zero
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On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:57:09PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> However the real point of the patch is to address all other issues with
> the per-cpu list and to fixup the lack of pte_quicklist in 2.6, and to
> avoid wasting zeropages (like the pte_quicklists did) by sharing them
> with all other page-zero users.

For the record, I had pte prezeroing patches written and posted prior
to 2.6.0, and had maintained them for a year when I gave up on them.


-- wli
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