Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030299AbWCUL2f (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:28:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030315AbWCUL2f (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:28:35 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:45252 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030299AbWCUL2e (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:28:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:25:21 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Pekka J Enberg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator Message-Id: <20060321032521.03a8d6de.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 586 Lines: 15 Pekka J Enberg wrote: > > This patch introduces a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc. > Problem is, after I've weathered 10000000000 convert-to-kmem_cache_zalloc patches, those pestiferous NUMA people are going to come along wanting kmem_cache_kzalloc_node(). Probably this should be designed for up-front? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/