From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:30:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142958616.21308.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060321032521.03a8d6de.akpm@osdl.org>
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
> >
> > This patch introduces a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc.
> >
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 03:25 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Problem is, after I've weathered 10000000000 convert-to-kmem_cache_zalloc
> patches, those pestiferous NUMA people are going to come along wanting
> kmem_cache_kzalloc_node().
>
> Probably this should be designed for up-front?
Actually, we don't even have kzalloc_node, so I'd say we're better of
waiting for the NUMA folk to ask for them. Hum?
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-21 16:33 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
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 [this message]
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[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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