Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 01:44:51 +0100 (CET)


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

>same could be said for nearly everything in the kernel.

The only point of such change to improve performances. If the improvement
make me to be slower somehow I can't agree in an obvious manner at least.

Exactly which is the order of the improvement on PPC and did you measured
the worst case?

Andrea

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