Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:55:20 +0530 | From | Balbir Singh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator |
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> > Ok, please keep the interface - build kmem_cache_zalloc() on top of > > what I suggest. > > The benefit of using *zalloc is the ability to skip the memset by using > pre-zeroed memory or to use more efficient ways of zeroing a page. > Having to check the value of a parameter wouldn't help.
Hmm... the current patch directly does a memset(). Are you talking about possible optimizations to kmem_cache_zalloc()?
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