On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > > Ok, please keep the interface - build kmem_cache_zalloc() on top of
> > > what I suggest.
> >
> > The benefit of using *zalloc is the ability to skip the memset by using
> > pre-zeroed memory or to use more efficient ways of zeroing a page.
> > Having to check the value of a parameter wouldn't help.
>
> Hmm... the current patch directly does a memset(). Are you talking about
> possible optimizations to kmem_cache_zalloc()?
Yes. At least that's what I understand from the whole zalloc process.
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