Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:51:19 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] Introduce huge zero page |
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On 11/14/2012 03:32 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The current code does the latter, by freeing the page via a > "slab"-shrinker callback. > > But I do suspect that with the right combination of use/unuse and > memory pressure, we could still get into the high-frequency scenario. >
There probably isn't any mechanism that doesn't end up with poor results in some corner case... just like the vhzp variant.
-hpa
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