Re: Make kzalloc a macro

[Andrew Morton]

Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Make kzalloc a macro and use __GFP_ZERO for zeroed slab allocations
>

I'd question the usefulness of this.  It adds more code to a fastpath
(kmem_cache_alloc) so as to speed up a slowpath (kzalloc()) which is
already slow due to its memset.

It makes my kernel a bit fatter too - 150-odd bytes of text for some
reason.
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