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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	tee@sgi.com, holt@sgi.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE?
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:05:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404130559.GD19587@v2.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704041338450.7416@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:45:06PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I'm confused.  CONFIG_ZERO_PAGE off is where we'd like to end up: how
> would turning CONFIG_ZERO_PAGE on in -rc kernels help us to get there?

He most certainly meant on by default.

I think if we do this, we also need a zeropage counter in the vm stats
so that we'll get a measure of the waste and it'll be possible to
identify apps to optimize/fix.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-04 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-29  7:58 [rfc][patch 1/2] mm: dont account ZERO_PAGE Nick Piggin
2007-03-29  7:58 ` [rfc][patch 2/2] mips: reinstate move_pte Nick Piggin
2007-03-29 17:49   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-29 13:10 ` [rfc][patch 1/2] mm: dont account ZERO_PAGE Hugh Dickins
2007-03-30  1:46   ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-30  2:59     ` Robin Holt
2007-03-30  3:09       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-30  9:23         ` Robin Holt
2007-03-30  2:40   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04  3:37     ` [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE? Nick Piggin
2007-04-04  9:45       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-04 10:24         ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 12:27           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 13:55             ` Dan Aloni
2007-04-04 14:14               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 14:44                 ` Dan Aloni
2007-04-04 15:03                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-04 15:34                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 15:41                       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-04 16:07                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 16:14                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 15:27                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 16:15                     ` Dan Aloni
2007-04-04 16:48                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 12:45           ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-04 13:05             ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2007-04-04 13:32               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-04 13:40                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 15:35       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 15:48         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 16:09           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 16:23             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 16:10           ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-04 16:31             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 22:07           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-04 16:32         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-04 17:02           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 19:15         ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 20:11         ` David Miller, Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 20:50           ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-05  2:03           ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05  5:23           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-04-04 22:05         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-05  0:27           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-05  1:25             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-05  2:30             ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05  5:37               ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-05 17:23                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-05  4:47         ` Nick Piggin

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