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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 23:40:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203050440.XAA07022@ccure.karaya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Mar 2002 23:28:06 EST." <20020304232806.A31622@redhat.com>

bcrl@redhat.com said:
> From your explanation of things, you only need to do the memsets once
> at  startup of UML where the ram is allocated -> a uml booted with
> 64MB of  ram would write into every page of the backing store file
> before even  running the kernel.  Doesn't that accomplish the same
> thing?

Sort of, but it's very heavy-handed.  The UML will force memory to be
allocated on the host long before it will ever be needed, and it may never
be needed.  This patch doesn't waste memory like that.

				Jeff


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-05  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-03 21:12 [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages Jeff Dike
2002-03-03 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-03 23:27   ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-03 23:48     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04  3:16       ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04  3:35         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04  5:04           ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 15:09             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 17:42               ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 18:29                 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 18:36                   ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 18:49                     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 20:46                       ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 22:49                         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 17:46             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-04 18:34               ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 18:33                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-04 20:36                   ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 22:51                     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-05  4:15                       ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05  4:28                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-05  4:40                           ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2002-03-05  5:34                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 14:43                               ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 16:37                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 16:56                                   ` Wayne Whitney
2002-03-05 18:12                                   ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 18:30                                     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-06 14:59                                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-06 15:24                                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-06 15:24                                           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-06 16:36                                             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-06 23:14                                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-06 23:20                                                 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-06 23:26                                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-06 23:33                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-07  0:08                                                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07  1:27                                                   ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-07  1:52                                                     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-08 19:17                                                       ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-08 21:22                                                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-07 13:49                                                     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 13:36                                                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 14:04                                                         ` yodaiken
2002-03-07 14:21                                                           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 14:38                                                             ` yodaiken
2002-03-07 15:31                                                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 16:50                                                                 ` yodaiken
2002-03-07 18:07                                                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 18:15                                                                     ` yodaiken
2002-03-07 19:22                                                                     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 22:43                                                                       ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-07 23:09                                                                         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 22:57                                                                           ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-07 14:43                                                             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 15:32                                                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 16:19                                                                 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 17:54                                                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 15:34                                                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 19:18                                                                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 20:10                                                                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-07 20:56                                                                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 21:23                                                                       ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-07 22:02                                                                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 22:10                                                                           ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-07 22:23                                                                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 22:27                                                                               ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-07 22:41                                                                                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 22:42                                                                                 ` David Lang
2002-03-06 16:03                                         ` Jesse Pollard
2002-03-06 17:08                                           ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-06 17:33                                             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07  0:28                                               ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-07  0:44                                                 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-05 18:46                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-06  1:30                                     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 10:49                                     ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-06 14:26                                       ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-06 16:50                                       ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 20:25                                         ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-06 20:54                                           ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 21:27                                             ` Malcolm Beattie
2002-03-06 23:26                                               ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-06 21:27                                           ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-06 22:25                                             ` Joseph Malicki
2002-03-07  0:04                                             ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-07  0:28                                             ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-07  0:44                                               ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 22:21                                         ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-07 11:30                                           ` Dave Jones
2002-03-07 18:21                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 14:43                           ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 16:57                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 18:14                               ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 18:45                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 17:30                             ` Jan Harkes

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