On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:52:57 -0500, Lee Revell <[email protected]> wrote: > I see kfree used in several hot paths. Check out > this /proc/latency_trace excerpt: Yes, but is the pointer being free'd NULL most of the time? The optimization does not help if you are releasing actual memory. Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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