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SubjectRe: [RFC 2/2] x86_64, mm: Reinsert the absent memory
On 06/24/2013 12:39 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> That might be a bit too granular: if we hit such an uninitialized block of
> memory we'd have to process 262,144 pages - potentially from an IRQ
> handler that does GFP_ATOMIC... or other latency critical code.
>
> With 2MB we'd have to on-demand initialize 512 pages, which shouldn't show
> up during normal use.
>

No... you split the gigabyte page into 511 2M pages and 512 4K pages.

-hpa




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