Nick Piggin wrote:
We have percpu and cache affine page allocators, so when userspace just frees a page, it is likely to be cache hot, so we want to free it up so it can be reused by this CPU ASAP. Likewise, when we newly allocate a page, we want it to be one that is cache hot on this CPU.
Actually, isn't the clear page function capable of doing some magic, when it writes all zeroes into the page, that causes the zeroes to just live in CPU cache without the old data ever being loaded from RAM? That would sure be faster than touching RAM. Not sure if we use/trigger that kind of magic, though :) -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
