Re: prezeroing V6 [2/3]: ScrubD

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 19:29:16 EST


Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Adds management of ZEROED and NOT_ZEROED pages and a background daemon
> called scrubd.

What were the benchmarking results for this work? I think you had some,
but this is pretty vital info, so it should be retained in the changelogs.

Having one kscrubd per node seems like the right thing to do.

Should we be managing the kernel threads with the kthread() API?
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