Jakub Jelinek wrote:
My guess is that all the page zeroing is pretty expensive as well and takes significant time, but I haven't profiled it.
I'm pretty sure that page freeing, reallocating and zeroing is more expensive than just letting the page sit there and only reclaim it lazily when we need the memory. I'll try to whip up a patch this week. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/