Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:02:10 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing) |
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Yes but its a short burst that only occurs very infrequestly and it takes > > It occurs just as often as we clear pages in the page fault handler. > We aren't clearing any fewer pages by prezeroing, we are just clearing > them a bit earlier.
scrubd clears pages of orders 7-4 by default. That means 2^4 to 2^7 pages are cleared at once. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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