From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bootmem allocator
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:33:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FAF593.4020503@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa79d98a0804072114q300e336eoec814ad6053c934d@mail.gmail.com>
Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>
> I think it would be a good idea ;) Btw maybe would be better to call
> memset on the code witch relies on "clear" memory explicitly? So we will
> clear memory allocated *only* if we really need this.
>
Are there any users of bootmem which will allocate a significant amount
of memory and don't need it zeroed?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-08 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-07 18:56 bootmem allocator Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-07 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-07 19:44 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-07 21:45 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-08 4:14 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-08 4:33 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-08 5:50 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-08 16:18 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-08 8:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-08 8:12 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-08 13:57 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-08 17:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-08 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-09 6:00 ` Mike Travis
2008-04-09 6:08 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 6:55 ` Mike Travis
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