> I'm still a bit concerned over the possibility that some workloads will > cause a high-frequency free/alloc/memset cycle on that huge zero page. > We'll see how it goes... That is easy enough to fix - we can delay the freeing by a random time or until memory pressure is applied. Alan -- 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>