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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703151315430.27311@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:23:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 0/4] Arch independent quicklists V2

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> 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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