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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:21:01 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls
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Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>
> As suggested by Eric Dumazet, this patch optimizes kzalloc() calls
>  that pass a compile-time constant size.

Logical.

> Please note that the patch
>  increases kernel text slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86)

Why?