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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:45:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: shemminger@...tta.com Cc: eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tc: Fix unitialized kernel memory leak From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:34:10 -0700 > I doubt it would make a noticeable performance difference because > the first memset would incur the cache penalty of the write (if any) > and later update of fields would be cached. Indeed, but it also means your store buffer usage is half as effective. And when writing a ton of messages that might be important. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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