Re: Prezeroing V2 [3/4]: Add support for ZEROED and NOT_ZEROED free maps

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Sun Dec 26 2004 - 18:27:10 EST


* Linus Torvalds:

> Anyway, at this point I think the most interesting question is whether it
> actually improves any macro-benchmark behaviour, rather than just a page
> fault latency tester microbenchmark..

By the way, some crazy idea that occurred to me: What about
incrementally scrubbing a page which has been assigned previously to
this CPU, while spinning inside spinlocks (or busy-waiting somewhere
else)?
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