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SubjectRe: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:12:32 -0700 (PDT)

> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote:
>
> > I'm going to make the radical declaration that it be perhaps often
> > better to always initialize page table chunks to all zeros on
> > allocation.
>
> That is the case if most of the page is going to be used soon. If we have
> sparse access patterns then not zeroing can avoid uselessly bringing
> cachelines in.

Good point.
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