> I'm still a bit concerned over the possibility that some workloads will > cause a high-frequency free/alloc/memset cycle on that huge zero page. > We'll see how it goes...
That is easy enough to fix - we can delay the freeing by a random time or until memory pressure is applied. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/