Andrew, On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:17:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Does someone have something else to propose? > > > > If not, what is your opinion of the two approaches above? > > > > The first approach should be fine - we do that in lots of places, such as > in core_sys_select(). > Ok, that's good to know. I looked at the stack consumption on x86 and it is comparable to what you do for core_sys_select(). > Applications mut be calling this thing at a heck of a rate for kfree() > overhead to matter. I trust CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB wasn't turned on... That was using a micro-benchmark to stress certain paths in perfmon. CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB was not turned on. Thanks. -- -Stephane - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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