On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > Has it been proven that quicklists are superior to simply going direct to the > page allocator for these pages?
Yes. > Would it provide a superior solution if we were to a) stop zeroing out the > pte's when doing a fullmm==1 teardown and b) go direct to the page allocator > for these pages? I doubt it. The zeroing is a by product of our way of serializing pte handling. Its going to be difficult to change that. - 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/
