Re: [patch 06/26] Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Jun 19 2007 - 16:55:17 EST


On 6/18/07, clameter@xxxxxxx <clameter@xxxxxxx> 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 <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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