On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:07:52PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> (reposting)
>
> There was a brief thread on this patch a while ago, please see
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.3/0601.html
>
> In short, XFS is using a kmem_cache_zalloc() function which just
> does kmem_cache_alloc + memset.
Hi Eric,
I don't think kmem_cache_zalloc is a good idea. The idea behind the slab
cache is to allow object reuse by storing constructed objects in the
caches, and a memset directly after the alloc destroys the object state.
A kmen_zalloc/kzalloc might make more sense.
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