On 11/20/2014 02:46 AM, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > >> kmem_cache_zalloc_node() allocates zeroed memory for a particular >> cache from a specified memory node. To be used for struct irq_desc. >> > > Is there a reason to add this for such a specialized purpose to the slab > allocator? I think it can just be handled for struct irq_desc explicitly. > It could be used not only for irq_desc. Grepping sources gave me 7 possible users. We already have zeroing variants of kmalloc/kmalloc_node/kmem_cache_alloc, so why kmem_cache_alloc_node is special? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>