Re: [patch 05/26] Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:58:43AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> It becomes now easy to support the zeroing allocs with generic inline functions
> in slab.h. Provide inline definitions to allow the continued use of
> kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc but remove other definitions of zeroing functions
> from the slab allocators and util.c.

The SLOB bits up through here look fine.

I worry a bit about adding another branch checking __GFP_ZERO in such
a hot path for SLAB/SLUB.

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