Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Fri Feb 04 2005 - 19:38:57 EST


Christoph Lameter writes:

> scrubd clears pages of orders 7-4 by default. That means 2^4 to 2^7
> pages are cleared at once.

So are you saying that clearing an order 4 page will take measurably
less time than clearing 16 order 0 pages? I find that hard to
believe.

Paul.
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