> I just tried making a new swapfile today (needed a bit more swap for
> my latest project). It took "forever" to dd /dev/zero to the swapfile.
>
> So I took a look at drivers/char/mem.c. Down around line 200 is a for
> loop that's filling the user buffer _one byte at a time_ and checking
> if we need rescheduling between each byte. It should probably be using
> clear_user(), but I'm unsure if it's safe to do it in one big whack.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Jeff Voskamp
>
I appreciate the vote of confidence in your cc-ing me, but let there be
a misconception, I am not even in the same galexy as linus and friends.
Mike