On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > Yeah, prezeroing in idle is probably pointless. But I'm not aware of > > > anyone having tried it properly... > > > > Ok, then what did I do wrong 3 years ago with the prezeroing patchsets? > > Failed to provide us a link to it?
You merged part of it and were involved in the discussions. General overviews: http://lwn.net/Articles/117881/ http://lwn.net/Articles/128225/ The details on the problems with prezeroing and touching multiple cachelines of the page. http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0412/12252.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/