linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19 1/4] ehca: assure 4k alignment for firmware control block in 64k page mode

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Date:	Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:50:44 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ibm.com>,
	rolandd@...co.com, raisch@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	openib-general@...nib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19 1/4] ehca: assure 4k alignment for firmware control block in 64k page mode

 > I'd simply move the memset into the alloc function and get rid of the
 > constructor here.

Slightly better still would be to use kmem_cache_zalloc() (save a tiny
bit of text by getting rid of the call to memset).

 - R.
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