From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932139AbXGWVng (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:43:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752007AbXGWVn0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:43:26 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:36714 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756918AbXGWVnZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:43:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:43:23 -0700 From: Christoph Lameter To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , Daniel Phillips , linux-mm Subject: Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP to GFP_LEVEL_MASK Message-ID: <20070723144323.1ac34b16@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1185216048.5535.1.camel@lappy> References: <1185185020.8197.11.camel@twins> <20070723113712.c0ee29e5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1185216048.5535.1.camel@lappy> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org __GFP_ZERO is implemented by the slab allocators (the page allocator has no knowledge about the length of the object to be zeroed). The slab allocators do not pass __GFP_ZERO to the page allocator. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:43:23 -0700 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP to GFP_LEVEL_MASK Message-ID: <20070723144323.1ac34b16@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1185216048.5535.1.camel@lappy> References: <1185185020.8197.11.camel@twins> <20070723113712.c0ee29e5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1185216048.5535.1.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , Daniel Phillips , linux-mm List-ID: __GFP_ZERO is implemented by the slab allocators (the page allocator has no knowledge about the length of the object to be zeroed). The slab allocators do not pass __GFP_ZERO to the page allocator. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org