linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroup: prefer [kv]zalloc over [kv]malloc+memset in memory controller code.

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Date:	Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:37:53 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: prefer [kv]zalloc over [kv]malloc+memset in
 memory controller code.

* Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> [2010-11-01 20:40:56]:

> Hi (please CC me on replies),
> 
> 
> Apologies to those who receive this multiple times. I screwed up the To: 
> field in my original mail :-(
> 
> 
> In mem_cgroup_alloc() we currently do either kmalloc() or vmalloc() then 
> followed by memset() to zero the memory. This can be more efficiently 
> achieved by using kzalloc() and vzalloc().
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
> ---
>  memcontrol.c |    5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 9a99cfa..90da698 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4199,14 +4199,13 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
> 
>  	/* Can be very big if MAX_NUMNODES is very big */
>  	if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
> -		mem = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		mem = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	else
> -		mem = vmalloc(size);
> +		mem = vzalloc(size);
> 
>  	if (!mem)
>  		return NULL;
> 
> -	memset(mem, 0, size);
>  	mem->stat = alloc_percpu(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu);
>  	if (!mem->stat) {
>  		if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
>

 
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
 

-- 
	Three Cheers,
	Balbir
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