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Subject: Re: Increase page fault rate by prezeroing V1 [0/3]: Overview
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> Did you notice I already implemented full PG_zero caching here with
> prezeroing on top of it?
>
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.9/PG_zero-2
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.9/PG_zero-2-no-zerolist-reserve-1
>
> I was about to push this in SP1, but it was a bit late.

Yes but this did not do the trick and the interface to get zeroed pages is
a bit difficult to handle.