Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO
yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:22:32 -0700
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 03:07:12PM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Mikulas> to do, it can clear free pages, and when GFP_ZERO request
> Mikulas> comes, it returns page directly without clearing overhead.
>
> Which I doubt is a win anyway, all you do is to sit there and thrash
> your cache in the background.
PPC turns cache off and zeros during idle task. This is a major
performance win. We measured.
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