Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] kvm tools: Add rwlock wrapper

Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30T12:30:55Z

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> IIRC there never was a memset() of all RAM, at least since kvm started
> booting Linux.  Windows has a zeroing thread which causes all of RAM to be
> committed shortly after boot, though.

Yup, I haven't heard of such thing either. AFAIK, it's all done lazily
by the page allocator.