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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:51:50 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory allocation question
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, george anzinger wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > size chuncks.  Currently I am using kmalloc() to allocate a page at a
> > > time.  I don't want to have to worry about mapping/unmapping etc.  I
> >
> > Use get_free_page() to get page sized chunks
>
> What about __get_free_page() ?  I don't need or want the clear page
> (performance issues).

get_free_page() doesn't clear the page afaics.

regards,

Rik
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