Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 22:40:50 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, David S. Miller wrote:

>No, as Victor has stated you don't call standard memset, you inline
>code it in the architecture specific idle loop and there you can
>check need_resched in between every store instruction if you feel
>it necessary.

So you'll waste some more instruction cache with the start, stop, restart
from last, stop, restart from last algorithm.

Andrea

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