From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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