From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:34:13 -0700 (MST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo Subject: Re: Prezeroing V2 [0/3]: Why and When it works In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <41C20E3E.3070209@yahoo.com.au> <16843.13418.630413.64809@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul Mackerras , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Kernel Mailing List List-ID: 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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org