linux-kernel - Re: [patch 06/26] Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:55:00 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"clameter@....com" <clameter@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com
Subject: Re: [patch 06/26] Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO

On 6/18/07, clameter@....com <clameter@....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 <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
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