Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:20:35 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO |
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Hi!
> >If you have 100% CPU load, you don't do background zeroing and you > >fallback to old zero-after-alloc. > > When I have to wait my CPUs are _always_ busy at 100%. (note even if the > disk is dogslow)
So you never do any task which is partly-cpu-bound and partly-io-bound? That tasks are pretty common in real life (starting emacs, compiling kernel singlethreaded). Not everyone has enough ram to to run make -j 5! Pavel -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+
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