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From: "Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bootmem allocator
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:50:50 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa79d98a0804072250l304232e3h29d08febb812b5f9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FAF593.4020503@zytor.com>

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>
> >
> > I think it would be a good idea ;) Btw maybe would be better to call
> > memset on the code witch relies on "clear" memory explicitly? So we will
> > clear memory allocated *only* if we really need this.
>
>  Are there any users of bootmem which will allocate a significant amount of
> memory and don't need it zeroed?
>
>         -hpa
>

Actually, I don't know without reading the code... will take a look
today evening
(have no access to sources in my office).

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08  5:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-07 18:56 Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-07 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-07 19:44   ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-07 21:45     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-08  4:14       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-08  4:33         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-08  5:50           ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2008-04-08 16:18           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-08  8:04     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-08  8:12       ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-08 13:57         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-08 17:34         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-08 17:44         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-09  6:00       ` Mike Travis
2008-04-09  6:08         ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09  6:55           ` Mike Travis

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