linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: Make allocations with GFP

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Message-ID: <000001410d62c020-44437965-d471-4125-af3c-cfd19b393de8-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:17:57 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Make allocations with GFP_ZERO slightly more
 efficient

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Joe Perches wrote:

> Use the likely mechanism already around valid
> pointer tests to better choose when to memset
> to 0 allocations with __GFP_ZERO

Ok but that is not that important since the first ptr check is only for
debuggin.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
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