linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()

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Message-Id: <1234801952.20430.33.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:32:32 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 14:56 +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> One problem is that zeroing ksize()
> bytes can have an overhead of nearly twice the actual allocation size.

A possible good thing is when linux has a
mechanism to use known zeroed memory in
kzalloc or kcalloc, it's already good to go.

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