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. On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Hmm, kzfree() is not going to be all that common operation so there won't be that many known zeroed regions and I suspect tracking them will have more overhead than just doing the memset(). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
