yodaiken> On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 03:07:12PM +0100, Jes Sorensen
yodaiken> wrote:
Mikulas> to do, it can clear free pages, and when GFP_ZERO request
Mikulas> comes, it returns page directly without clearing overhead.
>> Which I doubt is a win anyway, all you do is to sit there and
>> thrash your cache in the background.
yodaiken> PPC turns cache off and zeros during idle task. This is a
yodaiken> major performance win. We measured.
And Jakub just told us it wasn't a win under the same conditions on
the Sparc64.
Jes
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