Re: [PATCH] Perf, AMD: Prefer kzalloc() over kmalloc()+memset() inamd_alloc_nb()

[Jesper Juhl]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 21:06 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I believe this would be an improvement?
> > 
> > Prefer kzalloc() over kmalloc()+memset() in amd_alloc_nb().
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> 
> I've changed it to..
> 
> ---
> Subject: perf, amd: Use kmalloc_node(,__GFP_ZERO) for northbridge structure allocation
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Nov 01 18:52:05 CET 2010
> 
> Jasper suggested we use the zeroing capability of the allocators
> instead of calling memset ourselves. Add node affinity while we're at
> it.
> 
> Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>

Fine by me.

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