Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:12:45 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Prezeroing V2 [3/4]: Add support for ZEROED and NOT_ZEROED free maps |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Florian Weimer wrote: > > But overwritting with zeros is commonly called "scrubbing", as in > "password scrubbing".
On the other hand, "memory scrubbing" in an OS sense is most often used for reading and re-writing the same thing to fix correctable ECC failures.
Anyway, at this point I think the most interesting question is whether it actually improves any macro-benchmark behaviour, rather than just a page fault latency tester microbenchmark..
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