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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@wildopensource.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] General purpose zeroed page slab
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:54:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1acujrh62.fsf@wilson.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041018184210.GI16153@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:42:10 +0100")

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> writes:

Matthew> It's probably worth doing this with a static cachep in slab.c
Matthew> and only exposing a get_zeroed_page() / free_zeroed_page()
Matthew> interface, with the latter doing the memset to 0.  

*nod*


Matthew> I disagree with Andi over the dumbness of zeroing the whole
Matthew> page.  That makes it cache-hot, which is what you want from a
Matthew> page you allocate from slab.

Yeah, plus the housekeeping may be more of a hassle than it's worth.

We'll see...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Wild Open Source, Inc.
mkp@wildopensource.com	http://www.wildopensource.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-18 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-14 16:50 [PATCH] General purpose zeroed page slab Martin K. Petersen
2004-10-14 17:30 ` Brian Gerst
2004-10-14 17:36   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 18:49     ` Dave Jones
2004-10-14 19:08       ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-14 19:47         ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 18:04 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-14 23:36   ` Adam Heath
2004-10-15  1:18     ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-18 18:06   ` Martin K. Petersen
2004-10-18 18:42     ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-18 18:54       ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2004-10-18 19:06       ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-18 21:06       ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-18 19:03 Luck, Tony
2004-10-18 19:14 ` Matthew Wilcox

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