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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:28:10 -0600
From: Tommy Reynolds <reynolds@redhat.com>
To: "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmem_cache_zalloc()
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Uttered "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@sgi.com>, spoke thus:

>  In short, we're using a kmem_cache_zalloc() function in XFS which just
>  does kmem_cache_alloc + memset.
> 
>  We'd like to incorporate this into the kernel proper, and several others
>  chimed in that it would be useful, so here's the patch.  If it's a no-go
>  with you, we can roll this functionality back under fs/xfs to reduce our
>  changes in the mainline kernel.

Why not use the constructor function interface to kmem_cache_create that is
_already_ in the kernel API?
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