Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:34:13 -0700 (MST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: Prezeroing V2 [0/3]: Why and When it works |
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Personally, at least for a desktop usage, I think that the load average > would work wonderfully well. I know my machines are often at basically > zero load, and then having low-latency zero-pages when I sit down sounds > like a good idea. Whether there is _enough_ free memory around for a > 5-second thing to work out well, I have no idea..
Isn't the basic premise very similar to the following paper;
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/osdi99/full_papers/dougan/dougan_html/dougan.html
In fact i thought ppc32 did something akin to this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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