From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757605AbXFSUzR (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:55:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753614AbXFSUzE (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:55:04 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.224]:44311 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753499AbXFSUzB (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:55:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=kGbTP9tTLi35AA//db3+Ye4AyNAJ4gjZDfXaZb/lYfRbDL23DIN2Y5JHY+Aa3JWjkDhaR8pIAD+I8Ivc2pEEcV9UOn9LWb1/vaY+R4Fn+dsaDW524k09fpjKs11MffxxUzmPO4/q70j+yzWJzcw3ffzQxU4HJYgwF9QsY9CHD0M= Message-ID: <84144f020706191355m10435927o153e91f16af1c8dd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:55:00 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "clameter@sgi.com" Subject: Re: [patch 06/26] Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com In-Reply-To: <20070618095914.862238426@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070618095838.238615343@sgi.com> <20070618095914.862238426@sgi.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5f6d776c9b8a51da Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/18/07, clameter@sgi.com wrote: > kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in > a zeroing variant in the past. But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible > now to do zeroing while allocating. Looks good. Maybe we want to phase out the zeroing variants altogether (expect maybe kzalloc which is wide-spread now)? Acked-by: Pekka Enberg