Btw. thanks for your persistance and willingness to go over all the suggestions which might not have been consistent btween different versions. I believe this is a general improvement in the early initialization code. We do not rely on an implicit zeroing which just happens to work by a chance. The perfomance improvements are a bonus on top. Thanks, good work! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>