Re: [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE?

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 - 08:45:35 EST


On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> No, you have a point, but if we have to ask people to recompile
> with CONFIG_ZERO_PAGE, then it isn't much harder to ask them to
> apply a patch first.
>
> But for a potential mainline merge, maybe starting with a CONFIG
> option is a good idea -- defaulting to off, and we could start by
> turning it on just in -rc kernels for a few releases, to get a bit
> more confidence?

I'm confused. CONFIG_ZERO_PAGE off is where we'd like to end up: how
would turning CONFIG_ZERO_PAGE on in -rc kernels help us to get there?

Hugh
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