Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:51:22 +0100 (CET) | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > > 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()?
Yes. At least that's what I understand from the whole zalloc process. -- Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say: 4. This won't affect what you're doing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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