Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] Introduce huge zero page

[Alan Cox]

> 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
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