From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:23:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 0/4] Arch independent quicklists V2 In-Reply-To: <20070313043051.498ede98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070313071325.4920.82870.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070313005334.853559ca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45F65ADA.9010501@yahoo.com.au> <20070313035250.f908a50e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45F685C6.8070806@yahoo.com.au> <20070313041551.565891b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070313043051.498ede98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > Yeah, prezeroing in idle is probably pointless. But I'm not aware of > > > anyone having tried it properly... > > > > Ok, then what did I do wrong 3 years ago with the prezeroing patchsets? > > Failed to provide us a link to it? You merged part of it and were involved in the discussions. General overviews: http://lwn.net/Articles/117881/ http://lwn.net/Articles/128225/ The details on the problems with prezeroing and touching multiple cachelines of the page. http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0412/12252.html -- 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: email@kvack.org