From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a25so2071599pyi for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <84144f020706191355m10435927o153e91f16af1c8dd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:55:00 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" Subject: Re: [patch 06/26] Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO In-Reply-To: <20070618095914.862238426@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070618095838.238615343@sgi.com> <20070618095914.862238426@sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "clameter@sgi.com" Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com List-ID: On 6/18/07, clameter@sgi.com wrote: > kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in > a zeroing variant in the past. But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible > now to do zeroing while allocating. Looks good. Maybe we want to phase out the zeroing variants altogether (expect maybe kzalloc which is wide-spread now)? Acked-by: Pekka Enberg -- 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: email@kvack.org