> >If you have 100% CPU load, you don't do background zeroing and you
> >fallback to old zero-after-alloc.
>
> When I have to wait my CPUs are _always_ busy at 100%. (note even if the
> disk is dogslow)
So you never do any task which is partly-cpu-bound and
partly-io-bound? That tasks are pretty common in real life (starting
emacs, compiling kernel singlethreaded). Not everyone has enough ram
to to run make -j 5!
Pavel
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