Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:06:51 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] General purpose zeroed page slab |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:42:10 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> I disagree with Andi over the dumbness > of zeroing the whole page. That makes it cache-hot, which is what you > want from a page you allocate from slab.
Not for a page table, which tends to be not fully used. It would be true for a user page, but that doesn't use this mechanism anyways.
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