From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:47:20 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Prezeroing V3 [1/4]: Allow request for zeroed memory Message-Id: <20050104164720.3863d312.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <41C20E3E.3070209@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > This patch introduces __GFP_ZERO as an additional gfp_mask element to allow > > to request zeroed pages from the page allocator. > > Ok, let's start merging this slowly One week hence, please. Things like the no-bitmaps-for-the-buddy-allocator have been well tested and should go in first. -- 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: aart@kvack.org