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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:51:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <441EB350.50609@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0603201506140.19005@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>

Pekka J Enberg a écrit :
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> 
> This patch introduces a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc. The
> allocator already exits in XFS and there are potential users for it so
> this patch makes the allocator available for the general public.
> 

Excellent.

Please change zalloc() so that a zalloc(constant_value) uses your 
kmem_cache_zalloc on the appropriate cache.

This way we can really introduce zalloc() *everywhere* without paying the cost 
of runtime lookup to find the right cache.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-20 13:07 [PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator Pekka J Enberg
2006-03-20 13:51 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2006-03-20 14:21   ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-03-20 16:05 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-20 16:14   ` Pekka Enberg
2006-03-20 16:45     ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-21  7:13       ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-03-21 10:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-21 11:03   ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-03-21 18:35     ` Manfred Spraul
2006-03-21 18:37       ` Pekka Enberg
2006-03-21 11:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-21 11:50   ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-03-21 16:30   ` Pekka Enberg
     [not found] <5Ssjj-314-69@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5Sv7o-7l5-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5Svh9-7xW-61@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <5SvK8-88q-41@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-20 19:07       ` Bodo Eggert
2006-03-21  3:25         ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-21 10:51           ` Bodo Eggert
2006-03-21 11:32             ` Pekka J Enberg

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