From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965380AbXFGT3S (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:29:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764394AbXFGT3H (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:29:07 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:59958 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932728AbXFGT3G (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:29:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:29:11 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Satyam Sharma , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: why does the macro "ZERO_PAGE" take an argument? Message-ID: <20070607192911.GV6909@holomorphy.com> References: <4667EC18.4080904@yahoo.com.au> <4668412D.3030506@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4668412D.3030506@zytor.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> although it's not clear where in the source tree are the invocations >> that would actually make a difference to a MIPS system, which is why >> i've CC'ed ralf on this. i'm sure he can clear this up. :-) On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:32:29AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > x86 could also benefit from coloured zeropages. In fact, I thought it > already had them (K8 wants as many as 8.) How would one demonstrate the beneficial effect of such? -- wli