netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/8] Auto-zero the allocated sock object

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Message-Id: <20071101.003500.51612292.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Auto-zero the allocated sock object

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:48:59 +0300

> We have a __GFP_ZERO flag that allocates a zeroed chunk of memory.
> Use it in the sk_alloc() and avoid a hand-made memset().
> 
> This is a temporary patch that will help us in the nearest future :)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Applied.
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