Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 22:38:26 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:

>architecture-dependent paths. For some architectures may choose the
>default -- kmalloc+memset -- and other archs can choose a page-zeroing
>idle task, all without affecting kmalloc/kmem_cache_alloc

I was not talking about kmalloc/kmem_cache_alloc infact. I was talking
about kmalloc+check_cache+fallbackon-memcpy slower than kmalloc+memcpy.

Andrea

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