From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:32:32 -0800
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On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 14:56 +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> One problem is that zeroing ksize()
> bytes can have an overhead of nearly twice the actual allocation size.

A possible good thing is when linux has a
mechanism to use known zeroed memory in
kzalloc or kcalloc, it's already good to go.

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