Mikulas> On 9 Nov 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Why, all it does is to provide an obfuscated macro for something
>> which is not a problem. Right now some code will do kmalloc();
>> memset();, it's very clean and easy to deal with.
Mikulas> GFP_ZERO is not so stupid idea. It allows us to implement
Mikulas> something like zero-page cache. While processor has nothing
Mikulas> to do, it can clear free pages, and when GFP_ZERO request
Mikulas> comes, it returns page directly without clearing overhead.
Which I doubt is a win anyway, all you do is to sit there and thrash
your cache in the background.
Jes
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