zeroing pages in the idle task?

[Michel Lanners]

All, and especially Paul/Cort,

To come back to my original question...

On  12 Sep, this message from mlan echoed through cyberspace:
> I've come across a 'forgotten' feature of the PPC kernels: namely
> zeroing pages 'in advance' in the idle task.
>
> It's a feature Cort implemented some time ago, but which is disabled by
> default.
[snip]
> So, a few questions:
>
> - is there any problem with using this feature?

I didn't have any, but that's only my box then....

> - if not, would it be a good idea to enable it by default?

What do you think, Paul, Cort?

> - or, would it be better to add it to rc.sysinit, leaving it to each
>   distribution whether to enable it or not?

Maybe enabling it by default would be a good choice? It can always be
disabled...

I'll post a patch on sourceforge.

Michel

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