Re: [PATCH 0/3] Virtual huge zero page

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Mon Oct 01 2012 - 14:06:13 EST


On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:33:12AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> ... and I think it would be worthwhile to know which effect dominates
> (or neither, in which case it doesn't matter).
>
> Overall, I'm okay with either as long as we don't lock down 2 MB when
> there isn't a huge zero page in use.

Same here.

I agree the cmpxchg idea to free the 2M zero page, was a very nice
addition to the physical zero page patchset.
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