Re: [patch] Trivial diff: M

Re: [patch] Trivial diff: M_ZERO

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Re: [patch] Trivial diff: M_ZERO

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02-18-2008, 09:32 AM

Miod Vallat

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Re: [patch] Trivial diff: M_ZERO

>> There's not much we can do in malloc to actually do something smart about
>> this flag, so, my question is: is it really that much harder to just do
>> that zeroing yourself?
>
> the point is that back-end allocator can then pull tha pags
> from the zero pool that is replenished in the idle loop.

But page zeroing in the idle loop is disabled on all platforms so far.

Miod

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