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Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] faster kmalloc lookup
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 21:22, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> kmalloc spends a large part of the total execution time trying to find=20
> the cache for the passed in size.

would it be possible for fixed size kmalloc's to have the compiler
precalculate this ?



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