From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] kmem_cache_zalloc
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:47:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CA221BF.33973067@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1017257958.16305.168.camel@stout.americas.sgi.com>
Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> In the interest of whittling down the changes that XFS makes to the core
> kernel, I thought I'd start throwing out some the easier self-contained
> modifications for discussion.
>
> XFS adds a kmem_cache_zalloc function to mm/slab.c, it does what you
> might expect: kmem_cache_alloc + memset
>
> Is this something that might be considered for inclusion in the core
> kernel, or should we roll it back into fs/xfs?
Count me in. Clearly a very sane thing to do.
Needs an EXPORT_SYMBOL though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-27 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-27 19:39 [RFC] kmem_cache_zalloc Eric Sandeen
2002-03-27 19:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-03-27 19:52 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-03-27 20:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-29 22:17 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-29 23:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-27 20:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-03-27 20:23 ` Jeff Garzik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-28 11:21 Dipankar Sarma
2002-03-28 11:25 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-28 11:40 ` Dipankar Sarma
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