Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Please note that the patch
> > increases kernel text slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86)
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Why?
Because of the malloc_sizes lookup. As kindly explained by Eric, we're
now doing:
kzalloc(100, GFP_KERNEL);
and with the patch, we will do:
kmem_cache_zalloc(malloc_sizes[4].cs_dmacachep, GFP_KERNEL);
which explains the the difference. The end result should be faster
kzalloc(), though.
Pekka
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