Re: [QUICKLIST 0/4] Arch independent quicklists V2

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > > Yeah, prezeroing in idle is probably pointless.  But I'm not aware of
> > > anyone having tried it properly...
> > 
> > Ok, then what did I do wrong 3 years ago with the prezeroing patchsets?
> 
> Failed to provide us a link to it?

You merged part of it and were involved in the discussions.

General overviews:

http://lwn.net/Articles/117881/
http://lwn.net/Articles/128225/

The details on the problems with prezeroing and touching multiple 
cachelines of the page.

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0412/12252.html

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