Take advantage of kmem_cache_zalloc(). Save a memset() call in ext4_init_io_end() and save a few bytes. Before: [jj@dragon linux-2.6]$ size fs/ext4/page-io.o text data bss dec hex filename 3016 0 624 3640 e38 fs/ext4/page-io.o After: [jj@dragon linux-2.6]$ size fs/ext4/page-io.o text data bss dec hex filename 3000 0 624 3624 e28 fs/ext4/page-io.o Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- page-io.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c index beacce1..0f5dfe0 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c +++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c @@ -158,11 +158,8 @@ static void ext4_end_io_work(struct work_struct *work) ext4_io_end_t *ext4_init_io_end(struct inode *inode, gfp_t flags) { - ext4_io_end_t *io = NULL; - - io = kmem_cache_alloc(io_end_cachep, flags); + ext4_io_end_t *io = kmem_cache_zalloc(io_end_cachep, flags); if (io) { - memset(io, 0, sizeof(*io)); atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_ioend_count); io->inode = inode; INIT_WORK(&io->work, ext4_end_io_work); -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html