From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PG_zero
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:41:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041102034140.GS2583@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041101215709.GD3571@dualathlon.random>
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:57:09PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> However the real point of the patch is to address all other issues with
> the per-cpu list and to fixup the lack of pte_quicklist in 2.6, and to
> avoid wasting zeropages (like the pte_quicklists did) by sharing them
> with all other page-zero users.
For the record, I had pte prezeroing patches written and posted prior
to 2.6.0, and had maintained them for a year when I gave up on them.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-02 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-30 14:10 PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-30 21:07 ` PG_zero Andrew Morton
2004-10-30 22:45 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-31 15:35 ` PG_zero Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-01 21:57 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-01 22:05 ` PG_zero Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-02 3:41 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-10-31 15:17 ` PG_zero Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-02 13:53 ` PG_zero Andy Whitcroft
2004-11-02 19:39 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-01 17:26 ` PG_zero Nick Piggin
2004-11-01 18:03 ` PG_zero Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-01 22:34 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-01 23:47 ` PG_zero Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-02 1:47 ` PG_zero Nick Piggin
2004-11-02 2:21 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-02 2:54 ` PG_zero Nick Piggin
2004-11-02 15:42 ` PG_zero Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-02 19:50 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-02 22:41 ` PG_zero Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-03 1:26 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-02 21:09 ` PG_zero Andrew Morton
2004-11-02 21:56 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-02 22:41 ` PG_zero Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-03 1:09 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-03 1:18 ` PG_zero Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-03 1:23 ` PG_zero Nick Piggin
2004-11-03 2:05 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-03 11:53 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-03 12:10 ` PG_zero Pavel Machek
2004-11-01 22:24 ` PG_zero Andrea Arcangeli
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