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SubjectReally slow /dev/zero in 2.1.9
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I just tried making a new swapfile today (needed a bit more swap for
my latest project). It took "forever" to dd /dev/zero to the swapfile.

So I took a look at drivers/char/mem.c. Down around line 200 is a for
loop that's filling the user buffer _one byte at a time_ and checking
if we need rescheduling between each byte. It should probably be using
clear_user(), but I'm unsure if it's safe to do it in one big whack.

Suggestions?

Jeff Voskamp

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