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From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH] Zero memory more efficiently in mm/percpu.c::pcpu_mem_alloc()
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:58:39 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1010292354060.24561@swampdragon.chaosbits.net> (raw)

Don't do vmalloc() + memset() when vzalloc() will do.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
 percpu.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index efe8168..8d75223 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -294,9 +294,7 @@ static void *pcpu_mem_alloc(size_t size)
 	if (size <= PAGE_SIZE)
 		return kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	else {
-		void *ptr = vmalloc(size);
-		if (ptr)
-			memset(ptr, 0, size);
+		void *ptr = vzalloc(size);
 		return ptr;
 	}
 }


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             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-29 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-29 21:58 Jesper Juhl [this message]
2010-10-30 13:58 ` [PATCH] percpu: zero " Tejun Heo
2010-10-30 15:55   ` Jesper Juhl

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