Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:14:57 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:

>Nearly all optimizations are tradeoffs. In this case, you have a easy to
>show significant decrease in wall clock time of an important benchmark
>versus the terrible cost of using 2 cache lines in the instruction cache
>during a time period in which you have nothing else to do.

I agree it's not a big cost but I am not paying it and you want me to pay
it.

Andrea

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